Deputy Chief Appellate Defender Wanda H. Carter, of Columbia, for Petitioner. Attorney General Alan M. Wilson and Assistant Attorney General Benjamin Hunter Limbaugh, both of Columbia, for Respondent.

This post-conviction relief action concerns whether the PCR court erred in concluding trial counsel was not ineffective in deciding to preserve the right to final closing argument rather than call two potential alibi witnesses.

J. Blanding Holman IV, of Southern Environmental Law Center, of Charleston, Amy E. Armstrong and Jessie A. White, both of South Carolina Environmental Law Project, of Pawleys Island and Jefferson Leath, of Leath, Bouch & Seekings, LLP, of Charleston, for Petitioners. Bradley D. Churdar, of South Carolina Department of Environmental Control, of North Charleston, Randolph R. Lowell, of Willoughby and Hoefer P.A., of Charleston, Tracey C. Green and Chad N. Johnston, both of Willoughby & Hoefer, PA, of Columbia, for Respondents.

This case stems from several orders issued by the administrative law court (ALC) in a contested case proceeding in which Petitioners challenge various permits issued by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control for a proposed cruise ship terminal on the Charleston peninsula. The court of appeals affirmed the ALC. Pres. Soc'y of Charleston v. S.C. Dep't of Health & Envtl. Control, Op. No. 2017-UP-403 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Oct. 18, 2017). The Court granted certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision.

Chief Appellate Defender Robert M. Dudek, of Columbia, for Petitioner. Attorney General Alan Wilson and Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General William M. Blitch, Jr., both of Columbia, and Solicitor Barry Joe Barnette, of Spartanburg, for Respondent.

Robert Lee Moore appeals his conviction of attempted murder, arguing the trial court should have suppressed the evidence found from the search of his cell phone. A majority of the court of appeals affirmed petitioner's conviction and sentence. State v. Moore, 421 S.C. 167, 805 S.E.2d 585 (Ct. App. 2017). We now determine whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the trial court where two of the judges agreed petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the police searched his cell phone without a warrant, yet found on inconsistent bases that the fruits of the warrantless search would have been inevitably discovered.

Sarah Patrick Spruill, Boyd Benjamin Nicholson, Jr., both of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, PA; and David W. Holmes, of Holmes Law Firm, all of Greenville, for Petitioner. Robert L. Widener, of Burr & Forman, LLP, of Columbia, and Bernie W. Ellis, of Burr & Forman, LLP, of Greenville, both for Respondent.

The Court granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in Commissioners of Public Works of the City of Laurens v. City of Fountain Inn, 423 S.C. 461, 815 S.E.2d 21 (Ct. App. 2018).

Whitney B. Harrison, of McGowan, Hood & Felder, LLC, of Columbia, Carolyn R. Hills and Jennifer D. Hills, both of Myrtle Beach, for Appellant. Stuart W. Snow of Dusenbury, Snow & Evans, PA, of Florence and Charles Edward Parrish, of Conway, for Respondents. Melissa Meyers Frazier, of Little River, Guardian ad Litem.

Appellant appeals the family court's order awarding grandparent visitation pursuant to subsection 63-3-530(A)(33) of the South Carolina Code.

D. Randall Moody, III and John W. Sulau, both of Jackson Lewis, P.C., of Greenville, Burl F. Williams of Burl F. Williams, P.A. and Konstantine P. Diamaduros, of Nexsen Pruet, LLC, of Greenville, for Petitioners. W. Andrew Arnold and Bruce B. Campbell, both of Horton Law Firm, of Greenville, for Respondents.

This case involves lawsuits for member oppression and trade secret misappropriation. The Court granted petitions for writs of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in Wilson v. Gandis, Op. No. 2018-UP-078 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Feb. 7, 2018), in which the court of appeals affirmed the circuit court and adopted the circuit court's order in its entirety.

Donald Bruce Clark, of Donald B. Clark, LLC, of Charleston, for Petitioner. Alexander Blair Cash and Daniel Francis Blanchard, III, both of Rosen Rosen & Hagood, LLC, of Charleston, for Respondent.

Respondent filed an action in the Family Court of Charleston County alleging he and petitioner had entered into a common law marriage and seeking divorce, equitable distribution, and other relief. The family court bifurcated the case to determine first whether a common law marriage existed, ultimately determining it did. Petitioner appealed, but the court of appeals determined the family court order was not final and appealable. We reversed in Stone v. Thompson, Op. No. 27876 (Filed April 3, 2019), and retained jurisdiction to adjudicate the merits.

Lesley Anne Firestone, of Moore & Van Allen, PLLC, of Charleston; Chief Appellate Defender Robert Michael Dudek and Appellate Defender Lara Mary Caudy, both of Columbia, all for Petitioner. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General William M. Blitch, Jr., both of Columbia; and Solicitor William Benjamin Rogers, Jr., of Bennettsville, all for Respondent.

The Court granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in State v. Cotton, Op. No. 2017-UP-356 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Sept. 6, 2017).

Frank A. Barton, of West Columbia, for Petitioner. Helen F. Hiser, of Mount Pleasant, and Jason Wendell Lockhart, of Columbia, both of McAngus Goudelock & Courie, LLC, for Respondents.

The Court reviews the court of appeals' published opinion. Harrison v. Owen Steel Co., Inc., 422 S.C. 132, 810 S.E.2d 433 (Ct. App. 2018).