Disciplinary Counsel Lesley M. Coggiola and Deputy Disciplinary Counsel Barbara Marie Seymour, both of Columbia, for the Office of Disciplinary Counsel. William Franklin Warren, III, of Greenville, pro se Respondent.

This is an attorney disciplinary matter.

Appellate Defender David Alexander, of Columbia, for Appellant. Attorney General Alan M. Wilson and Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Deborah R.J. Shupe, both of Columbia, for Respondent.

Appellant appeals the jury's finding that he is a sexually violent predator, and requests the Court find a right to effective assistance of counsel during sexually violent predator proceedings.

M. W. Cockrell, III and Sarah C. Campbell, both of Cockrell Law Firm, PC, of Chesterfield, for Appellants. William E. Hopkins, Jr. and Joseph C. Hopkins, both of Hopkins Law Firm, LLC, of Pawleys Island, for Respondents.

The Court hears this case to determine whether the circuit court erred in affirming the Bishopville Municipal Election Commission's decision to invalidate a city council election on the ground that votes were counted in secret.

T. McRoy Shelley, III and Steven T. Moon, both of Rogers Townsend & Thomas, PC, of Columbia, for Appellants. Allan P. Sloan, III and Kristen B. Fehsenfeld, both of Pierce, Herns, Sloan & Wilson, LLC, of Charleston, Ralph Kennedy, of Kennedy Law Firm, of Batesburg-Leesville and Robert Thomas King, of King, Love and Hupfer, LLC, of Florence, for Respondents. Bert G. Utsey, III of Walterboro and John S. Nichols, of Bluestein Nichols Thompson and Delgado, of Columbia, for Amicus Curiae The South Carolina Association for Justice.

This case is on direct appeal to the Supreme Court and involves the grant of summary judgment, and a trial court order preventing the deposition of a party.

Attorney General Alan Wilson and Assistant Attorney General Courtney E. Lowell, for Petitioner, State of South Carolina; Counsel for Litigation Tasha B. Thompson, and General Counsel for Litigation Milton G. Kimpson, all of Columbia, for Petitioner, South Carolina Department of Revenue. William F. Barnes, III and Ronnie L. Crosby, both of Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick; and Kathleen E. Barnes, of Barnes Law Firm, LLC, all of Hampton, for Respondents.

The Court accepted this case in its original jurisdiction to determine, inter alia, the scope of the South Carolina Revenue Procedures Act.

Paul L. Reeves, of Reeves Law Firm, LLC, of Columbia, for Petitioner. Paul Linwood Hendrix, of Jones & Hendrix, PA, of Spartanburg, for Respondents.

The Court reviews the court of appeals' decision in Davaut v. University of South Carolina, Op. No. 2015-UP-041 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Jan. 21, 2015).