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The summary below each case is prepared to offer lawyers and the public a general overview of what issues are included in a case which will be argued. The summary is not a limit on what issues a party to a case may present at oral argument.
Thursday, February 13, 2003 | |
Courtroom I
(Court convenes at 10:15
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10:15 a.m. | (Time Limits: 10 - 10 - 5 ) |
11059 Warren Lynn and Equity Marketing, LLC, Appellants v. Rebashares Development Company, LLC, Timeshares Guarantee, Inc., Reba Management, Inc., Dwight R. Trew and Judy Trew, Respondents. Daryl G. Hawkins and Amy L. Balcome, both of Lewis, Babcock & Hawkins, of Columbia, for appellants. W. Thomas Vernon, of King & Vernon; and Joseph M. McCulloch, Jr., both of Columbia, for respondents. This is an action alleging numerous causes of action relating to an agreement between the parties regarding the sales of timeshare units at a resort on Hilton Head Island. Appellant appeals from the trial court's dismissal of all causes of action except that alleging breach of contract.
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11:00 a.m. | (Time Limits: 10 - 10 - 5 ) |
11029 Case No: 1996-DR-28-795 Diane Shannon, Respondent v. George Shannon, Appellant. And Case No: 2001-DR-28-258 George L. Shannon, Appellant v. Teresa Diane Shannon, Respondent. James W. Corley, of Columbia, for appellant. Carlos W. Gibbons, Jr., of Columbia, for respondent. Must a former spouse continue paying alimony when the recipient is missing and her whereabouts are unknown?
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11:45 a.m. | (Time Limits: 10 - 10 - 5 ) |
11297 The State, Respondent v. LaQuinces Delvecchio Davis, Appellant. Chief Attorney Daniel T. Stacey, of SC Office of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for appellant. Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Charles H. Richardson and Senior Assistant Attorney General Norman Mark Rapoport, all of Columbia; and Solicitor Thomas E. Pope, of York, for respondent. This appeal involves the sufficiency of probable cause to support a search warrant for a defendant's hotel room.
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2:00 p.m. | (Time Limits: 10 - 10 - 5 ) |
10999 Thomas Trancik, M.D., P.A., Appellant v. USAA Insurance Company and Rosemary Wiggs, Respondent. Paul Clarendon Ballou, of Columbia, for appellant. Robert W. Buffington, of Haynsworth, Sinkler & Boyd, of Columbia, for respondent. This appeal involves the validity of an assignment of potential lawsuit proceeds from an injured party to her doctor.
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2:45 p.m. | (Time Limits: 10 - 10 - 5 ) |
11030 Carolina Land Clearing Corp., Respondent v. SAFECO Insurance Company of America, Appellant. Thomas H. Pope, III, and W. Chad Jenkins, both of Pope & Hudgens, of Newberry, for appellant. Albert A. Lacour, III, of Clawson & Staubes, of Charleston, for respondent. This is an action on a payment bond under S.C. Code Ann. §57-5-160 by a subcontractor against the bonding company.
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3:30 p.m. | (Time Limits: 10 - 10 - 5 ) |
10446 The State, Respondent v. Delbert Louis Smalls, Appellant. Assistant Appellate Defender Robert M. Pachak, of SC Office of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for appellant. Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Charles H. Richardson and Senior Assistant Attorney General Harold M. Coombs, Jr., all of Columbia; and Solicitor Ralph E. Hoisington, of Charleston, for respondent. Can a person indicted for second-degree lynching plead to ABHAN by signing a waiver of presentment where no ABHAN indictment was ever prepared?
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Tuesday, February 25, 2003 | |
Courtroom I
(Court convenes at 10:00
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10:00 a.m. | (Time Limits: 5 - 5 - 5) |
11519 The State, Respondent v. Jimmy Dodd, Appellant.
Chief Attorney Daniel T. Stacey, of SC Office of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for appellant. Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Charles H. Richardson and Assistant Attorney General W. Rutledge Martin, all of Columbia; and Solicitor Harold W. Gowdy, III, of Spartanburg, for respondent. Mr. Dodd appeals his conviction for armed robbery, arguing the State failed to prove the corpus delecti of armed robbery aliunde his confession.
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10:15 a.m. Actual Hearing Time: 10:20 a.m. | (Time Limits: 5 - 5 - 5) |
11474 The State, Respondent, v. Bruce Green, Appellant. Assistant Appellate Defender Aileen P. Clare, of SC Office of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for appellant. Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Charles H. Richardson and Assistant Attorney General W. Rutledge Martin, all of Columbia; and Solicitor Randolph Murdaugh, III, of Hampton, for respondent.
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10:30 a.m. Actual Hearing Time: 10:40 a.m. | (Time Limits: 5 - 5 - 5) |
11514 The State, Respondent v. Bobby Watson, Appellant.
Assistant Appellate Defender Eleanor Duffy Cleary, of SC Office of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for appellant. Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Charles H. Richardson and Senior Assistant Attorney General Harold M. Coombs, Jr., all of Columbia; and Solicitor Jay E. Hodge, Jr., of Cheraw, for respondent. Mr. Watson appeals his convictions for first degree criminal sexual with a minor and committing a lewd act upon a child under the age of sixteen years, arguing the trial court erred in not allowing him to present surrebuttal testimony in response to the State's reply evidence.
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10:45 a.m. Actual Hearing Time: 11:00 a.m. | (Time Limits: 5 - 5 - 5) |
11463 The State, Respondent v. Douglas Edward McCloud, Appellant.
Assistant Appellate Defender Eleanor Duffy Cleary, of SC Office of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for appellant. Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh and Assistant Deputy Attorney General Charles H. Richardson, all of Columbia; and Solicitor John R. Justice, of Chester, for respondnet. This criminal appeal concerns whether the trial court had subject matter jurisdiction over appellant's indictment for criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature.
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Tuesday, February 11, 2003 | |
Courtroom II
(Court convenes at 9:30
a.m.)
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9:30 a.m. | (Time Limits: 10 - 10 - 5 ) |
11125 The State, Respondent v. Tyrone Edward Fowler, Appellant. Assistant Appellate Defender Robert M. Dudek, of SC Office of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for appellant. Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka and Assistant Attorney General S. Creighton Waters, all of Columbia; and Solicitor Robert M. Ariail, of Greenville, for respondent.
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10:15 a.m. | (Time Limits: 10 - 10 - 5 ) |
10947 Edgar Scott, as parent and natural guardian of Zacharias Scott, a minor under the age of fourteen years, Appellant v. Greenville Housing Authority, as owner and operator of Pierce Homes, Respondent. John Robert Peace, of Greenville, for appellant. Merl F. Code and E. Delane Rosemond, both of Code & Rosemond, of Greenville, for respondent.
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11:00 a.m. | (Time Limits: 10 - 10 - 5 ) |
10703 Carolina Waste Resources Development, Inc., Respondent v. Horry County Solid Waste Authority, Inc., Appellant. Ellison D. Smith, IV, and Stan Barnett, both of Smith, Bundy, Bybee & Barnett, of Mt. Pleasant; James B. Richardson, Jr., of Richardson & Birdsong, of Columbia; and
David E. Martin, of DuRant & Martin, of Myrtle Beach, for appellant. Richard M. Lovelace, Jr., and Matthew R. Magee, both of Conway, for respondent.
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11:45 a.m. | (Time Limits: 10 - 10 - 5 ) |
11286 The State, Respondent v. Oscar Roy Padgett, Appellant. Senior Assistant Appellate Defender Wanda H. Haile, of SC Office of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for appellant. Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Charles H. Richardson and Senior Assistant Attorney General Harold M. Coombs, Jr., all of Columbia; and Solicitor Donald V. Myers, of Lexington, for respondent.
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Cases to be Submitted Without Oral Argument | |
10970 |
Seaside Development Corporation, a South Carolina Corporation, Appellant v. George W. Chisholm, Respondent.
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10971 |
Charlotte Ann Smith and Mary Joe Moore, Appellants v. Nationsbank of South Carolina, a Corporation formerly Rock Hill National Bank, Respondent.
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10990 |
Bobby J. Riggs, Appellant v. Hearl Corporation, Henry Ridge, Sr., a/k/a Hank Ridge, individually, and Horton Homes, Inc., Respondents.
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10995 |
TWC, Inc., and North American Specialty Insurance Company, Appellants v. Dorchester County School District, Respondent. TWC, Inc., Third Party Plaintiff v. Virginia Segres t/a Williamsburg Masonry, Davis Roofing & Sheet Metal, Inc., Mt. Pleasant Mechanical, Inc., and Mescon's Inc., Third Party Defendants, North American Specialty Insurance Company, Fourth Party Plaintiff v. Southern Management Group and McKellar & Associates, Inc., Fourth Party Defendants.
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10996 |
Gilbert Smith, Appellant v. Michelin North America, Inc., John Fitts and Leon Jocklic, Respondents.
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11007 |
Health Promotion Specialists, LLC, and Palmetto Dental Care, LLC, Appellants v. South Carolina Board of Dentistry, South Carolina Dental Association, Dr. Charles Maxwell, Dr. Charles E. Millwood, and James H. Zorn, Jr., Defendants, of whom South Carolina Board of Dentistry and Dr. Charles Maxwell are Respondents.
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11021 |
Margaret Murray, Respondent v. Bank of America, N.A., formerly known as NationsBank, N.A., Appellant.
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11032 |
John P. Brown, Appellant v. Spartanburg County, Spartanburg County Public Defender's Office, Spartanburg County Detention Facility, Respondents.
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11033 |
Helen Bonaparte, Respondent v. Ambler Industries, Inc., as Employer, and Great Northern Ins. Co., as Carrier, Appellants.
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11056 |
James P. Mastronardi/Joe H. Norwood, d/b/a Ultra Tan, Inc., Appellants v. South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, Respondent.
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11057 |
The Market at Shaw, Inc., Appellant v. William H. Hoge, Planning Director, Sumter City/County Planning Commission, the County of Sumter, and its duly constituted agencies the Sumter City/County Planning Commission and the Zoning Board of Appeals, Respondents.
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11058 |
The Manal Project, Inc., and CFS, Inc., Plaintiffs, of whom CFS, Inc., is Appellant v. Tim Good, Respondent. And Tim Good, Third Party Plaintiff, Respondent v. W.G. Larry Woodes, Third Party Defendant, Appellant.
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11065 |
Barry Bobo, Appellant v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Respondent.
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11313 |
City of Florence, Respondent v. Phillip Tanner, Appellant.
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11314 |
The State, Respondent v. Hules L. McCloud, Appellant.
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11316 |
The State, Respondent v. Larry Williams, Appellant.
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11317 |
The State, Respondent v. Christopher Inglese, Appellant.
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11319 |
The State, Respondent v. Curtis Frank Cuccia, Appellant.
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11340 |
The State, Respondent v. Robert Brown, Appellant.
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11342 |
The State, Respondent v. Billy Ray Smith, Appellant.
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