South Carolina Supreme Court Decisions 2014
Date: December 23, 2014
Docket Number: 27473
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent Bryant Kinloch was charged with trafficking cocaine, trafficking heroin, and possession with intent to distribute heroin within proximity of a park after law enforcement obtained a search warrant and…
Date: December 23, 2014
Docket Number: 27474
Justia Opinion Summary: Both CarMax Auto Superstores West Coast, Inc., and the South Carolina Department of Revenue (appealed the court of appeals' decision, reversing and remanding a decision of the Administrative Law Court (ALC) upholding the…
Date: December 10, 2014
Docket Number: 27065
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue this case presented for the South Carolina Supreme Court's review centered on the correct application of those statutes and regulations pertinent to an invaluable (environmentally, economically, and socially)…
Date: December 10, 2014
Docket Number: 27469
Justia Opinion Summary: After prevailing in a condemnation action, petitioners-landowners moved for an award of attorneys' fees pursuant to section 28-2-510(B)(1) of the Eminent Domain Procedure Act. Contrary to petitioners' view, the circuit…
Date: December 3, 2014
Docket Number: 27468
Justia Opinion Summary: Husband Michael Buist and Wife Katie Buist married in 1999 and had one child. In 2007, Wife filed for divorce, seeking, inter alia, attorneys' fees and costs. In 2009, the family court granted the couple a divorce on the…
Date: November 12, 2014
Docket Number: 27444
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1993, Way pled guilty to committing a lewd act on a minor. The victim was Way's 13-year-old niece, who was spending the night with Way (who was then about 28 years old) and his wife. Way was sentenced to ten years in…
Date: November 12, 2014
Docket Number: 27462
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent Kimberly Legette was employed by Appellant Nucor Corporation from 1998, through 2010. Nucor terminated Legette's employment after she failed a random on-site drug test in violation of Nucor's drug policy.…
Date: November 12, 2014
Docket Number: 27463
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner Jomar Robinson appealed the court of appeals' decision to affirm his convictions for possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute (PWID), PWID within one-half mile of a public park, unlawful carrying…
Date: November 12, 2014
Docket Number: 27465
Justia Opinion Summary: Fifteen inmates who were sentenced to life without parole as juveniles petitioned the South Carolina Supreme Court for resentencing in light of the United States Supreme Court's decision in "Miller v. Alabama," (132 S.…
Date: November 12, 2014
Docket Number: 27466
Justia Opinion Summary: The plaintiffs, including eight South Carolina school districts, claimed that the State has failed to meet the constitutional obligation that there be a system of free public schools that affords each student the…
Date: October 29, 2014
Docket Number: 27457
Justia Opinion Summary: The South Carolina Supreme Court granted certiorari in this post-conviction relief (PCR) action to review the Court of Appeals' decision, which remanded for a determination of the lawfulness of Antonio Bordeaux's…
Date: October 29, 2014
Docket Number: 27458
Justia Opinion Summary: Roger Brock was passenger in a vehicle driven by Brian Mason, which was involved in an accident with a logging truck, driven by Ryan Stevens. At the time of the accident, Stevens was insured through the owner of the…
Date: October 29, 2014
Docket Number: 27460
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Erika Fabian brought this action for legal malpractice and breach of contract by a third-party beneficiary, alleging respondents attorney Ross M. Lindsay, III and his law firm Lindsay & Lindsay made a drafting…
Date: October 22, 2014
Docket Number: 27454
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent Matthew Jamison pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to twenty years in prison. He did not petition for a direct appeal. Respondent's first application for post-conviction relief (PCR) was…
Date: October 22, 2014
Docket Number: 27456
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants the South Carolina Energy Users Committee (the SCEUC) and the Sierra Club appealed orders of the Public Service Commission that approved Respondent South Carolina Electric & Gas's (SCE&G) application for…
Date: October 8, 2014
Docket Number: 27452
Justia Opinion Summary: The State appealed the court of appeals' decision to reverse the convictions of respondent William Coaxum, Sr., who was found guilty of armed robbery and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime.…
Date: September 29, 2014
Docket Number: 27448
Justia Opinion Summary: Birth Mother was twenty-three years old when she learned that she was pregnant very late in the pregnancy. She received no prenatal care. She did not tell her parents she was pregnant, even though she lived with them.…
Date: September 24, 2014
Docket Number: 27447
Justia Opinion Summary: Desmond Sams was convicted of voluntary manslaughter after he strangled the victim, Jake Frazier, during an altercation. Sams appealed, arguing the circuit court erred in denying his request to instruct the jury on…
Date: September 17, 2014
Docket Number: 27446
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner Alberta Major fell and sustained an ankle injury while walking across an unpaved area of an intersection, which was owned and maintained by respondent City of Hartsville. Petitioner asserted her injury was a…
Date: September 10, 2014
Docket Number: 27445
Justia Opinion Summary: Officers from the North Charleston South Carolina Police Department (NCPD),believed Petitioner Alfred Adams was a drug dealer. Acting without a warrant, officers placed a Global Positioning System (GPS) device on…
Date: September 3, 2014
Docket Number: 27442
Justia Opinion Summary: Carolinian, LLC was a closely held, manager-managed South Carolina limited liability company owned and managed various hotel and rental properties in Horry County. In February 2010, Appellants Shaul and Meir Levy…
Date: August 27, 2014
Docket Number: 27393
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court granted the State's petition for a writ of certiorari to review an unpublished Court of Appeals decision that affirmed the circuit court's suppression of respondent Philip Sawyer's breath test results and video…
Date: August 27, 2014
Docket Number: 27440
Justia Opinion Summary: Stephen Whigham was injured playing kickball during an event he organized for his employer, Jackson Dawson Communications. He filed a claim for workers' compensation. The commissioner denied the claim because she found…
Date: August 20, 2014
Docket Number: 27433
Justia Opinion Summary: In April 2003, the City of Columbia entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Stevens & Wilkinson of South Carolina, Inc. (S&W) and several other parties, to develop a publicly-funded hotel adjacent to the…
Date: August 20, 2014
Docket Number: 27434
Justia Opinion Summary: The respondents, two developers and an architectural firm, Stevens & Wilkinson of South Carolina, Inc. (S&W), entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the City of Columbia as part of a larger project team to…
Date: August 20, 2014
Docket Number: 27435
Justia Opinion Summary: Delores Williams, the personal representative of the Estate of Edward Murry, and Matthew Whitaker, Jr., the personal representative of the Estate of Annie Mae Murry (PRs), brought a declaratory judgment action to…
Date: August 20, 2014
Docket Number: 27436
Justia Opinion Summary: The events giving rise to this lawsuit involved numerous individuals and corporate entities. Briefly: plaintiff Clifford Hansen was introduced to Robert Fields and through Fields engaged the services of Beechwood…
Date: August 20, 2014
Docket Number: 27437
Justia Opinion Summary: After the South Carolina Department of Revenue (DOR) failed to produce public documents requested by Appellant Edward D. Sloan, Jr., Sloan filed s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) action against DOR and its director,…
Date: August 20, 2014
Docket Number: 27438
Justia Opinion Summary: This action stems from a dispute between plaintiff James Robert Malloy and Swain R. Thompson, regarding assets of Robert L. Chamblee (Decedent). The complaint alleged that Thompson, with the assistance of Merrill Lynch,…
Date: August 20, 2014
Docket Number: 27439
Justia Opinion Summary: Respondent Bentley Collins was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and three counts of owning a dangerous animal causing injury to a person after a ten-year-old boy was killed and partially eaten by his dogs, most of…
Date: August 6, 2014
Docket Number: 27427
Justia Opinion Summary: Patricia Brouwer challenged the circuit court's order dismissing her medical malpractice case for failure to file an expert witness affidavit with her Notice of Intent to File Suit ("NOI") pursuant to section 15-79-125…
Date: August 6, 2014
Docket Number: 27428
Justia Opinion Summary: In this judicial disciplinary matter, respondent Former Abbeville County Magistrate George Ferguson and the Office of Disciplinary Counsel have entered into an Agreement for Discipline by Consent. Respondent was indicted…
Date: August 6, 2014
Docket Number: 27429
Justia Opinion Summary: "The Record in this case is voluminous, and illustrates the complex and, at times, contentious nature of these proceedings. The circuit judge presided over numerous motion hearings and issued numerous orders over the…
Date: August 6, 2014
Docket Number: 27430
Justia Opinion Summary: The State charged appellant "Kevin R." with possessing a weapon on school grounds. Prior to his adjudicatory hearing before a family court judge, Appellant moved for a jury trial on the grounds the federal and state…
Date: July 30, 2014
Docket Number: 27424
Justia Opinion Summary: Claimant Johnny Adger suffered an accidental injury to his left knee on while working as a police officer with the Manning Police Department. As a result, he was treated using various non-operative methods, including…
Date: July 23, 2014
Docket Number: 27420
Justia Opinion Summary: In approximately twenty years PCS Nitrogen, Inc. contributed to environmental contamination by manufacturing fertilizer and disturbing contaminated soil during various demolition activities. In 2003, Ashley II of…
Date: July 23, 2014
Docket Number: 27421
Justia Opinion Summary: John Weik was convicted of murdering his former girlfriend following an argument over the couple's child. He confessed to the shooting and cooperated with law enforcement. There was never any dispute regarding guilt.…
Date: July 23, 2014
Docket Number: 27422
Justia Opinion Summary: Shannon Ranucci appealed the circuit court's order dismissing her medical malpractice case for failing to contemporaneously file an expert witness affidavit with her Notice of Intent to File Suit ("NOI") pursuant to…
Date: July 23, 2014
Docket Number: 27423
Justia Opinion Summary: In this medical malpractice case, Vicki Wilkinson appealed the circuit court's dismissal of her civil action with prejudice based on the motions filed by respondents East Cooper Community Hospital, Inc., Carolina…
Date: July 16, 2014
Docket Number: 27413
Justia Opinion Summary: In August 2012, then-sixteen-year-old Appellant Stephen W. was charged with possession of marijuana. At the adjudicatory hearing, Appellant moved for a jury trial, claiming that he was entitled to a jury trial under the…
Date: July 16, 2014
Docket Number: 27415
Justia Opinion Summary: Erick Hewins appealed his conviction for possession of crack cocaine. Hewins argued on appeal that the circuit court judge erred in ruling he was collaterally estopped from challenging the search of his vehicle, which…
Date: July 16, 2014
Docket Number: 27417
Justia Opinion Summary: For about forty years, 100 and 200 children residing in the Mitford Community of Fairfield County have been attending Chester County School District (CCSD) schools in the Great Falls area of Chester County. The CCSD…
Date: July 16, 2014
Docket Number: 27418
Justia Opinion Summary: In early 2006, Deputy Chris Farrell responded to a domestic call at the home of defendant James Ramsey's estranged wife (Wife). Farrell interviewed both parties and noticed a bruise on Wife's hand, which she indicated…
Date: July 16, 2014
Docket Number: 27419
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue this case presented to the Supreme Court was whether autopsy reports are "medical records" under Section 30-4-20(c) of the South Carolina Code (2007), and therefore exempt from disclosure under the South…
Date: July 9, 2014
Docket Number: 27410
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose out of plaintiff Ferguson Fire's efforts to obtain payment for materials it supplied to defendant Preferred Fire Protection, LLC for defendant Immedion's data center. In 2007, Immedion, a…
Date: July 9, 2014
Docket Number: 27411
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Bruce Hill was convicted of two murders and first-degree burglary, arising from a home invasion and double homicide in Horry County in 2005. He received concurrent life sentences for the murders and a…
Date: July 9, 2014
Docket Number: 27412
Justia Opinion Summary: On February 14, 2013, the Attorney General received an ethics complaint, alleging possible violations of the Ethics Act by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Robert W. Harrell, Jr. The complaint was originally…
Date: July 2, 2014
Docket Number: 27404
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant pled guilty to two counts of indecent exposure and was sentenced to two consecutive three-year terms, with credit for 253 days already served. Appellant contended the trial court erred in denying his request…
Date: July 2, 2014
Docket Number: 27405
Justia Opinion Summary: Lawrence Burgess was convicted of possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute and sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay a $25,000 fine. The Court of Appeals affirmed. Following the denial of his…
Date: July 2, 2014
Docket Number: 27406
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant-wife Shirley Crossland contended on appeal to the Supreme Court that the court of appeals erred in reversing the family court's award of alimony, in modifying the equitable division of the marital estate, and…
Date: July 2, 2014
Docket Number: 27407
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Donta Reid challenged the trial court's failure to suppress his confession, arguing it was obtained in violation of his Sixth Amendment right to counsel. The Supreme Court disagreed, finding the facts of this…
Date: July 2, 2014
Docket Number: 27408
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Anthony Nation appealed a circuit court's decision to statutorily impose lifetime global positioning satellite (GPS) monitoring on him due to his prior guilty plea for a sex offense with a minor and subsequent…
Date: June 25, 2014
Docket Number: 27403
Justia Opinion Summary: The South Carolina Supreme Court answered certified two questions from the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina. The case concerned supplemental health insurance policies, which differ from ordinary…
Date: June 18, 2014
Docket Number: 27400
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2008, at a regularly scheduled meeting of the Saluda County Council, a motion was made and seconded to amend the posted agenda to take up a resolution. Both the motion and the resolution were voted upon and passed…
Date: June 18, 2014
Docket Number: 27401
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants Heritage Healthcare of Ridgeway, LLC, Uni-Health Post-Acute Care - Tanglewood, LLC (Tanglewood), and UHS-Pruitt Corporation (collectively, Appellants) ask this Court to reverse the circuit court's denial of…
Date: June 18, 2014
Docket Number: 27402
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Damien Inman was convicted and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for the robbery, kidnapping, and murder of Mary Stutts. Appellant was seventeen years old at the time of the crimes. On appeal,…
Date: June 11, 2014
Docket Number: 27397
Justia Opinion Summary: This case centered on a claim for equitable indemnification, which was denied by the trial court. Appellants were sued by adjacent property owners regarding environmental contamination. Appellants denied responsibility…
Date: June 11, 2014
Docket Number: 27398
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner 5 Star, Inc. is a lawn maintenance and pressure washing company owned by Stan Shelby. In February 2005, 5 Star purchased a used 1996 Ford F-250 pickup truck. Several months later, Shelby parked the truck for…
Date: June 4, 2014
Docket Number: 27393
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court granted the State's petition for a writ of certiorari to review an unpublished Court of Appeals decision that affirmed the circuit court's suppression of respondent Philip Sawyer's breath test results and video…
Date: June 4, 2014
Docket Number: 27394
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant, Horry Telephone Cooperative Inc. (HTC), is a telecommunications company providing services in the Georgetown and Horry County areas. In 2007, as required by the South Carolina Competitive Cable Services Act,…
Date: June 4, 2014
Docket Number: 27395
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Cynthia Holmes, M.D. appealed a circuit court's grant of a directed verdict on her malpractice claim in favor of respondents Haynsworth, Sinkler & Boyd, P.A., Manton Grier, and James Becker, and award of…
Date: June 4, 2014
Docket Number: 27396
Justia Opinion Summary: This direct appeal involved a constitutional challenge to the Town of Hilton Head Island's business license tax ordinance, which required businesses within the Town to pay an annual license fee based upon a business's…
Date: May 28, 2014
Docket Number: 27392
Justia Opinion Summary: Following his conviction for one count of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature (ABHAN), one count of possession of a dangerous animal, and multiple counts of animal fighting, David Tant was remanded to the…
Date: April 30, 2014
Docket Number: 27385
Justia Opinion Summary: Jane Doe appealed a family court's order declaring her to be a "vulnerable adult" and in need of protective services pursuant to the South Carolina Omnibus Adult Protection Act. Doe contended the South Carolina…
Date: April 24, 2014
Docket Number: 27384
Justia Opinion Summary: The South Carolina Libertarian Party sought a declaratory judgment to determine whether the Equal Access to the Ballot Act was in effect. If the Court determined the Act was effective, the Party requested that the South…
Date: April 14, 2014
Docket Number: 27382
Justia Opinion Summary: Ten health care entities, along with the South Carolina Hospital Association and the South Carolina Health Care Association sought a declaration from the Supreme Court that the South Carolina Department of Health and…
Date: April 9, 2014
Docket Number: 27375
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involves the payment of attorney's fees and expenses to attorneys, Appellant Tara Dawn Shurling and co-counsel, who were court-appointed to represent an indigent charged with multiple criminal offenses.…
Date: April 9, 2014
Docket Number: 27376
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Ida Lord appealed the circuit court's order granting summary judgment in favor of D & J Enterprises, Inc., d/b/a Cash on the Spot ("D & J"). Lord argued on appeal that the circuit court erred in: (1) finding…
Date: April 9, 2014
Docket Number: 27379
Justia Opinion Summary: In a consolidated appeal, the plaintiffs from four separate actions (collectively, Appellants) ask the Supreme Court to reverse the trial court's order granting a motion to dismiss in favor of respondents Branch Banking…
Date: April 9, 2014
Docket Number: 27380
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Sarah Dawkins appealed the trial court's decision to grant Union Hospital District d/b/a Wallace Thomson Hospital's (the Hospital) motion to dismiss with prejudice and finding that Appellant was required to…
Date: April 9, 2014
Docket Number: 27381
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner was injured in a car accident while riding as a passenger in a vehicle driven by a co-employee. The liability limits of the at-fault driver were tendered, and there was no underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage…
Date: April 2, 2014
Docket Number: 27372
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue this case presented to the Supreme Court started from an agreement between Respondents, the University of South Carolina and the University Gamecock Club, and Appellant George M. Lee, III. In exchange for…
Date: April 2, 2014
Docket Number: 27373
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Dorris Green, representing his child who was injured while a passenger in his mother's automobile, contended that as a matter of public policy the courts of South Carolina should refuse to recognize the…
Date: April 2, 2014
Docket Number: 27374
Justia Opinion Summary: The Catawba Indian Nation brought a declaratory judgment action against the State (and Mark Keel) to determine the effect of the Gambling Cruise Act on its gambling rights. The circuit court granted summary judgment to…
Date: March 27, 2014
Docket Number: 27371
Justia Opinion Summary: In an expedited appeal, Michelle G. challenged the termination of her parental rights to two of her three sons. The family court terminated her rights as to two, and denied the mother's motion to dismiss on grounds that…
Date: March 26, 2014
Docket Number: 27369
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue before the Supreme Court in this case centered on whether a subcontract for the maintenance of aircraft required a contractor to turn to a subcontractor for all maintenance the contractor needs to fulfill a…
Date: March 26, 2014
Docket Number: 27370
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Cynthia Holmes, MD was previously a member of the consulting medical staff of the Respondent East Cooper Community Hospital, Inc. During the relevant time period, Appellant was a member of the Hospital's…
Date: March 19, 2014
Docket Number: 27367
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted a petition for a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the Court of Appeals in "Rider v. Estate of Rider," (713 S.E.2d 643 (Ct. App. 2011)), which applied the common law of agency to hold…
Date: March 19, 2014
Docket Number: 27368
Justia Opinion Summary: The circuit court granted petitioner Joseph Walker's request for post-conviction relief on the ground that his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance for failing to investigate a potential alibi witness. The court…
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: 27362
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue before the Supreme Court in this appeal centered on a court of appeals' decision to reverse the administrative law court's (ALC) final order, which reversed and denied the South Carolina Department of Health…
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: 27363
Justia Opinion Summary: In anticipation of the opening of the University of South Carolina's new basketball arena, the University of South Carolina and the University of South Carolina Gamecock Club distributed a brochure to high-level Gamecock…
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: 27364
Justia Opinion Summary: "Appellant and the Respondents are neighbors who obviously do not get along." Appellant Ursula Pallares brought suit alleging five claims against two of her neighbors, respondents Sharon Seinar and Lisa Maseng. Pallares…
Date: March 12, 2014
Docket Number: 27365
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner Beulah Butler appealed the court of appeals' decision to affirm her convictions for voluntary manslaughter and possession of a firearm or a knife during the commission of a violent crime. She claimed appellate…
Date: February 26, 2014
Docket Number: 27357
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner Clarence Robinson appealed his conviction for armed robbery and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime. He claimed the trial court erred in finding the police had a reasonable,…
Date: February 26, 2014
Docket Number: 27358
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Quashon Middleton was convicted on two counts of attempted murder and one count of possession of a weapon while committing a violent crime. Appellant pulled alongside his victims' stopped car one day in 2010 on…
Date: February 26, 2014
Docket Number: 27359
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2005, Winyah Bay Holdings, LLC held an event aimed at selling marsh-front lots located in South Island Plantation, an affluent, unbuilt housing development. Winyah conducted the sale by lottery, and geared the event…
Date: February 26, 2014
Docket Number: 27360
Justia Opinion Summary: Brian Hover, son of decedent Margaret Dever Hover Gurnham and the Personal Representative of her Estate, appealed the circuit court's order confirming the probate court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Beach First…
Date: February 5, 2014
Docket Number: 27356
Justia Opinion Summary: When the Respondent City of Myrtle Beach transferred $302,545 of accommodations tax (A-Tax) funds into the City's general fund and bypassed the Act's provisions, Appellant Tourism Expenditure Review Committee (TERC)…
Date: January 22, 2014
Docket Number: 27354
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue before the Supreme Court in this case was whether the admission of appellant Davontay Henson's codefendant's redacted confession during a joint trial violated appellant's rights under the Confrontation Clause…
Date: January 22, 2014
Docket Number: 27355
Justia Opinion Summary: The plaintiffs in this case consist of four Charleston citizens' groups. Plaintiffs brought suit seeking an injunction against what they believed to be the unlawful use of a terminal by the Carnival Corporation's cruise…
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: 27322
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Steven Barnes was convicted of kidnapping and murdering Samuel Sturrup, for which he received the death sentence. The judge sentenced appellant to death for the murder, but imposed no sentence for kidnapping.…
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: 27351
Justia Opinion Summary: White Oak Manor, Inc. owns and operates a nursing home in York. After sustaining injuries from the improper replacement of a feeding tube, a White Oak resident filed a lawsuit against the nursing home. White Oak…
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: 27352
Justia Opinion Summary: Jetter Pittman (Husband) and Gloria Pittman (Wife) were married in April 2000 and separated in March 2007. Wife petitioned for divorce on adultery grounds. Wife argued to the family court that Husband's land surveying…
Date: January 15, 2014
Docket Number: 27353
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner James Giles was convicted of first-degree burglary, strong arm robbery, and kidnapping. He was sentenced to thirty years', thirty years', and fifteen years' imprisonment, respectively, to be served…
Date: January 8, 2014
Docket Number: 27344
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2006, DLI Properties, LLC (DLI), hired Allen Tate, a real estate brokerage firm, and Faile, Allen Tate's licensee, to serve as its agents in connection with the sale of certain real property in Lancaster, South…
Date: January 8, 2014
Docket Number: 27345
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants John Doe, Jane Doe 1, Jane Doe 2 and Jane Doe 3 separately sued Respondents the Bishop of Charleston and the Bishop of the Diocese of Charleston in his official capacity (respondents). The cases were…
Date: January 8, 2014
Docket Number: 27346
Justia Opinion Summary: The South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles suspended Petitioner Phillip Brown's driver's license following his arrest for driving under the influence (DUI). The Hearing Officer for the South Carolina Office of Motor…
Date: January 8, 2014
Docket Number: 27347
Justia Opinion Summary: The Attorney General petitioned the Supreme Court to review two municipal courts' rulings addressing whether the Attorney General has the authority to prosecute criminal cases in magistrate and municipal courts. The…
Date: January 8, 2014
Docket Number: 27348
Justia Opinion Summary: The issue in this case centered on a workers' compensation lump-sum award to a claimant who passed away while an appeal of her award was pending. At issue before the Supreme Court was a Court of Appeals opinion that…
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