Hamilton Osborne, Jr., and James Y. Becker, both of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, of Columbia, for Petitioners. Robin B.Stilwell, of Hunter, Tomaszek & Stilwell, of Greenville, for Respondent.

On certiorari, the question is whether an order setting this case for trial is appealable.

Andrew F. Lindemann, of Davidson, Morrison & Lindemann, and Andrea E. White, of Duff, Turner, White & Boykin, both of Columbia, for Petitioner. Lawrence Keitt, of Keitt & Associates, of Orangeburg, for Respondent.

This case involves several questions of whether the Court of Appeals properly upheld a judgment against Petitioner for the tort of outrage. Those questions include: (1) whether Petitioner, as a government employee, was immune from this action; (2) whether the trial judge properly refused Petitioner's request for special interrogatories; and (3) whether the jury's punitive damages award was constitutionally excessive.

Deputy Chief Attorney Joseph L. Savitz, III, of South Carolina Office of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for Appellant. Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, Senior Assistant Attorney General William Edgar Salter, III, all of Columbia, and Solicitor Harold W. Gowdy, III, of Spartanburg, for Respondent.

The issues in this death penalty appeal involve the parameters of a capital defendant’s right to personally address the jury at both the guilt and sentencing phase of his trial.

Assistant Appellate Defender Robert M. Dudek, of South Carolina Office of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, and John M. Ervin, III, of Darlington, for Petitioner. Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, Assistant Attorney General S. Creighton Waters, all of Columbia, and Solicitor Jay E. Hodge, Jr., of Darlington, for Respondent.

In this criminal case, the Court granted certiorari to consider whether the Court of Appeals properly concluded that the defendant "opened the door" to cross-examination on his post-arrest silence by presenting a defense which created the impression he had cooperated with police.

Samuel Darryl Harms, of Harms Law Firm, of Greenville, for Petitioners. Robert D. Moseley, Jr., of Leatherwood, Walker, Todd & Mann, of Greenville, for Respondent. John Shannon Nichols, of Bluestein & Nichols, of Columbia; and Alford Haselden, of Haselden, Owen & Boloyan, of Clover, for Amicus Curiae South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association. C. Mitchell Brown, of Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough of Columbia, for Amicus Curiae South Carolina Defense Trial Attorney's Association.

The Court granted certiorari to consider a Court of Appeals' decision construing S.C. Code Ann. § 38-77-142(B).

H. Fred Kuhn, Jr., of Moss, Kuhn & Fleming, of Beaufort, for Petitioner. Philip Fairbanks and Kathy D. Lindsay, both of Fairbanks & Lindsay, of Beaufort, for Respondents.

This Court granted certiorari to review the Court of Appeals’ unpublished opinion (1) affirming the trial judge’s decision to award plaintiffs, individually, minimum statutory damages under former UCC § 36-9-507(1) and (2) reversing the trial judge’s finding that plaintiffs’ claims under the UCC and the South Carolina Unfair Trade Practices Act were factually inconsistent.

G. Dana Sinkler, of Warren & Sinkler, of Charleston, and Stephen A. Spitz, of Columbia, for Petitioners. Michael S. Church, of Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney, of Columbia, for Respondent.

This case involves the issue of whether attorneys' fees are recoverable from a covenantor of a general warranty deed where the covenantor failed to defend an action asserting superior title against the covenantee.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster and Senior Assistant Attorney General James G. Bogle, Jr., both of Columbia, for the Office of Disciplinary Counsel. Daniel F. Norfleet, of Summerville, pro se.

Senior Assistant Appellate Defender Wanda H. Haile, of South Carolina Office of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for Petitioner. Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Chief, Capital and Collateral Litigation Donald J. Zelenka, Assistant Deputy Attorney General B. Allen Bullard, Jr., Assistant Attorney General Douglas E. Leadbitter and Assistant Attorney General Christopher L. Newton, all of Columbia, for Respondent.

The Court issued a writ of certiorari and allowed petitioner a belated direct appeal. The issue on appeal is whether the trial court erred in failing to suppress petitioner's statement.

Stephen L. Brown, Michael A. Molony and Lea Kerrison, all of Young, Clement, Rivers & Tisdale, of Charleston, for Appellant. Fred David Butler, of Columbia, for Respondent Public Service Commission of South Carolina. G. Trenholm Walker and Amanda R. Maybank, both of Pratt-Thomas, Epting & Walker, of Charleston, for Respondent Kiawah Island Utility Co., Inc.

R. Thayer Rivers, Jr., of Ridgeland, and Darrell T. Johnson, Jr., of Hardeeville, for Petitioner. W. Hugh McAngus, of McAngus, Goudelock & Courie, of Columbia, for Respondents.

This workers' compensation case raises the issues of whether the Court of Appeals erred by holding petitioner left the scope of his employment by violating orders not to drive a company vehicle home and whether the Court of Appeals erred by finding Morris Roofing did not provide transportation to its employees.

T.S. Stern, Jr., of Covington, Patrick, Hagins, Stern & Lewis, of Greenville, for Appellants. Matthew P. Utecht, of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, of Greenville, for Respondent.

The issues in this combined appeal involve whether the trial court erred in: (1) denying the Rule 60 motion, and (2) awarding additional attorneys’ fees after an appeal in the case had already been filed.

William Isaac Diggs, of Diggs & Danielsen, of Myrtle Beach, for Petitioner. William L. Pope, of Pope & Rodgers, of Columbia, for Respondent.

Assistant Appellate Defender Robert M. Dudek, of South Carolina Office of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, and Jeffrey P. Bloom, of Columbia, for Appellant. Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, Assistant Attorney General Melody J. Brown, all of Columbia, and Solicitor Barbara R. Morgan, of Aiken, for Respondent.

This capital case raises numerous issues challenging appellant's convictions and death sentence including juror qualification, penalty phase charge, and evidentiary issues.