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Supreme Court Published Opinions - Week of 06/24/2024
6-26-2024 - Opinions

28211 - Orthofix v. SCDOR
The Court affirms the circuit court's decision as modified, finding section 12-36-2120(74) of the South Carolina Code (2014) violates the dormant Commerce Clause in part, and declining to sever the unconstitutional language from the remainder of the subsection.
28212 - Samuel Paulino v. Diversified Coatings, Inc.
The workers' compensation commission awarded Samuel Paulino total and permanent disability benefits because it found he sustained a fifty percent or greater loss of use to his back. The court of appeals reversed the commission's award "because there is no medical evidence in the record that supported the [commission's] findings." In making this ruling, the court of appeals misapplied the "substantial evidence" standard for reviewing decisions of the commission. We reverse the court of appeals and reinstate the commission's award.
28213 - The State v. Gabrielle Oliva Lashane Davis-Kocsis
Davis-Kocsis was convicted of murder, two counts of kidnapping, first-degree burglary, and criminal conspiracy. The court of appeals affirmed. We granted Davis-Kocsis's petition for a writ of certiorari to address two issues. The first is whether section 16-3-910 of the South Carolina Code (2015) prohibits sentencing a defendant for kidnapping and murder when the kidnapping and murder victims are different. The second is whether the trial court erred in admitting a recording of a 911 call over a Rule 403, SCRE objection. We affirm the court of appeals.