Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Solicitor General Robert D. Cook and Deputy Solicitor General J. Emory Smith, Jr., all of Columbia for Petitioner. Teresa A. Knox, and Patrick L. Wright, both of Columbia, for Respondent. W. Allen Nickles, III of Nickles Law Firm, of Columbia, for Amicus Curiae SC Education Association. Julia Parker Copeland, of Hinchey Murray & Pagliarini, LLC, Kathleen Fowler Monoc, of Monoc Law LLC, and Wilbur E. Johnson, of Clement Rivers, LLP, all of Charleston, for Amicus Curiae City of Charleston. Bryan Eric Shytle, of Columbia, and James Harold Goldin, of Charleston, both for Amicus Curiae Municipal Association of South Carolina.

The Court has agreed to hear this request for declaratory relief in its original jurisdiction to determine the validity of mask mandate ordinances for schools and daycares enacted by the City of Columbia.

Carl L. Solomon, of Solomon Law Group, LLC, W. Allen Nickles, III, of Nickles Law Firm, both of Columbia, Skyler Bradley Hutto, of Williams & Williams, of Orangeburg, for Petitioners. Susan Pedrick McWilliams, Emily Ruth Wayne and Michael Antonio Parente, all of Nexsen Pruet, LLC, Sara Stinson Parrish, Vann Henry Gunter, Jr., Shawn David Eubanks, Kenneth M. Moffitt, Cathy Lynne Hazelwood, John Potter Hazzard, V, Shelly Bezanson Kelly, and Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, all of Columbia, for Respondents.

The Court has agreed to decide this request for declaratory and injunctive relief in its original jurisdiction to determine the validity of Proviso 1.108 and Proviso 1.103 of the 2021-2022 Appropriations Act.