Deputy Chief Appellate Defender Wanda H. Carter, of South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, of Columbia, for Appellant. Attorney General Alan Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, Assistant Attorney General Mark R. Farthing, of Office of the Attorney General, of Columbia, and Robert Mills Ariail, of Greenville, for Respondent.

In this criminal appeal, the court of appeal addresses whether the trial court erred in denying Jonathan K. Hill's post trial motion for a new trial when the jury considered extrinsic evidence that was not admitted at trial.

O. W. Bannister, of Greenville, for Appellant-Respondent. Robert M. Rosenfeld, of Greenville, for Respondent-Appellant.

In this divorce action, the Court of Appeals must determine whether the family court erred in awarding permanent periodic alimony to the wife based on the husband’s contention that the family court erroneously imputed additional income to the husband and failed to consider the husband’s premarital debts. On cross-appeal, the wife contends the family court improperly held her entitlement to attorney’s fees, expert fees, and litigation costs were satisfied by the husband’s overpayment of temporary alimony.

Milton M. Avrett, III, of Augusta, Georgia, for Appellant. Clay Stebbins, III, James S. (Jeb) Murray, and James Samuel Murray, of Augusta, Georgia, for Respondent.

In this appeal, Alice Crerar argues the trial court erred in denying her motion to set aside a default judgment in favor of ITC Commercial Funding, LLC.

Kevin Kendrick Bell, of Columbia, for Appellant. Kenneth C. Anthony, Jr, of Spartanburg, for Respondent.

Liberty Life Insurance Co. denied life insurance proceeds to Stephen Ney after toxicology reports reflected the presence of methamphetamines in Ney's blood after he was killed in a single vehicle accident. Hutchinson, Ney's daughter, sued Liberty Life for benefits arguing the policy exclusion for injury resulting from an insured being "under the influence of any narcotic" did not apply to Ney's claim for benefits because methamphetamine is not a narcotic. The circuit court granted summary judgment to Hutchinson on the ground that methamphetamine is not a narcotic within the definition of the life insurance policy exclusion issued by Liberty Life to Ney. On appeal, Liberty Life argues the circuit court erred in granting summary judgment to Hutchinson when (1) the operative language of the Liberty Life policy exclusion providing that benefits will not be payable when the insured is "under the influence of any narcotic" was taken verbatim from the South Carolina Insurance Code, and (2) the circuit court adopted a specialized medical definition of the term "narcotic" in the context of an insurance policy written for laypersons, as opposed to the plain and ordinary meaning of "narcotic" as understood by laypersons.

Robert T. Williams, Sr., of Lexington, for Appellant. Alan Wilson, Attorney General, and S. Creighton Waters, Senior Attorney General, for Respondent.

In this appeal, Richard G. Thompson, d/b/a All Out Bail Bonding and Accredited Property & Casualty Insurance (the Appellants) argue the trial court abused its discretion in estreating Mario Hinojos's bond. They contend the trial court modified Hinojos's bond without the proper notice and consent of the Appellants, and the Appellants' obligations under the bond were completed and terminated at the time of Hinojos's guilty plea.

Patricia Logan Harrison, of Columbia, for Appellant. Byron Ronald Roberts, of Columbia, for Respondent.

Peter Brown is a disabled Medicaid beneficiary whose one-on-one services were terminated by the Charles Lea Center. He appeals the Administrative Law Court's ruling that the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) hearing officer did not have jurisdiction to determine if his services were wrongly terminated. He also argues the services were terminated as reprisal for a civil rights complaint filed years earlier and that DHHS promised to maintain his services.

Cynthia Barrier Patterson, of Columbia, for Appellant. Stephen Gordon Dey and Joseph Francis Runey, of Charleston, for Respondent.

Wife and Husband were divorced in 2006. Wife appeals the family court's 2008 post-divorce order establishing terms for the sale of the marital home, arguing the family court erred in (1) assuming jurisdiction over matters previously reserved to another judge; (2) clarifying the divorce decree in general; (3) clarifying the divorce decree although its terms were clear; (4) clarifying the divorce decree under Rule 60(a), SCRCP; (5) establishing a pricing scheme and requiring automatic reductions in the selling price of the marital home; and (6) awarding Husband a "monetary judgment" with post-judgment interest.

John M.S. Hoefer, Tracey C. Green, and Andrew J. MacLeod, of Columbia, for Appellant-Respondent. Michael Warner Battle, of Conway, for Respondent-Appellant.

This cross-appeal arises out of the Tourism Expenditure Review Committee and the City of Myrtle Beach's dispute over the disbursement of funds for "tourism-related expenditures" for two events under section 6-4-10(4) of the South Carolina Code.

Steven L. Smith, of North Charleston, for Appellants. Justin O'Toole Lucey, of Mt. Pleasant, for Respondent.

American Media Services, LLC (AMS), and several limited liability companies (the LLCs) it created to upgrade radio stations appeal an arbitration award in favor of Mark Steinmetz. AMS and the LLCs contend the arbitrator manifestly diregarded the law of contracts and conversion.

Jeffrey T. Spell, of North Charleston, for Appellants Larry Goodwin & Frances Goodwin. Charles H. Gibbs, Jr, of Charleston, for Respondent Morris Brooke. G. Thomas Hill, of Ravenel, for Respondents James & Virginia Meyer. Bernard E. Ferrara, Jr, of North Charleston, for Respondent Charleston County & Charleston County Delinquent Tax Dept. Thomas P. Lowndes, Jr, of Charleston, for Respondent Edward Wiseman. Anthony D. Hoefer, of Sumter, for Respondent HSBC. Joseph Keating, of Johns Island, pro se. Linda M. Bond, of Johns Island, pro se Edward Wiseman, III, of Summerville, pro se.

Tax sale purchasers, Larry and Frances Goodwin, seek review of an order of the Master-in-Equity quieting title in favor of defaulting taxpayers, James and Virginia Meyer, and their mortgagee, Morris Brooke. The Goodwins argue the evidence establishes that the Charleston County Tax Collector strictly complied with the alternate procedure for collection of property taxes set forth in S.C. Code Ann. § 12-51-40 to -170.

Curtis L. Ott, Carmelo B. Sammataro, of Columbia, for Appellants. Lee D. Cope and Matthew Creech, of Hampton, and Karl S. Brehmer, of Columbia, for Respondents.

Ford Motor Company appeals from the jury's verdict in favor of the Brelands, arguing the court erred by denying its motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict because the Brelands failed to provide sufficient evidence of a product defect and proximate causation.

J. Lewis Cromer, of Columbia, for Appellants. William H. Davidson, II, of Columbia, for Respondents.

The Rosen family appeals the trial court's grant of summary judgment on their claims for breach of contract and constitutional taking arguing the trial court erred in ruling the University of South Carolina and the University of South Carolina Gamecock Club were not prohibited from charging for parking under the terms of the Rosens' lifetime scholarship contracts. The Rosens also assert they have the right to change the beneficiaries in their contracts.

Senior Appellate Defender Joseph L. Savitz, III, S.C. Commission on Indigent Defense, of Columbia, for Appellant. Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, of Office of the Attorney General, of Columbia, and Solicitor Christina Theos Adams, of Anderson, for Respondent.

Raymondeze Rivera was convicted of murder and sentenced to life. On appeal, he claims the trial judge violated his right to counsel when he agreed that Rivera's attorneys did not have to make a closing argument on his behalf.

Stephen Dallas Baggett, Jr, of Greenwood, for Appellant. Joseph G. Wright, III, of Anderson, John S. Nichols and Blake A. Hewitt, of Columbia, for Respondent.

In this civil action, AnMed appeals several issues including whether the trial court erred in refusing to remove members from the jury venire who owed debts to AnMed, in admitting certain evidence, in failing to instruct the jury as AnMed requested, and in denying AnMed's motion for new trial absolute and new trial nisi remittitur.

Ronald W. McKinney, of Greenville, for Appellant. Reid Sherard and Timothy Madden, of Greenville, for Respondent.

The City of Greenville appeals the circuit court's grant of partial summary judgment in favor of Morris Communications Company, LLC d/b/a Fairway Outdoor Advertising which effectively made void the City's ordinance regarding amortization of billboards without "just compensation" to the sign owner.