Robert J. Stephenson, IV, of Columbia, for Appellant. Robert L. Lumpkin, Jr., of Lumpkin, Oxner & Stacy, P.A., of Georgetown and Deborah Harrison Sheffield, of Columbia, for Respondent.

This is a direct appeal from an order of the circuit court dismissing respondent’s magistrate’s court conviction for lack of jurisdiction.

Bobby G. Frederick and Laura L. Hiller, both of Myrtle Beach, for Appellant. Paula Knox Brown, of Rock Hill, for Respondent.

In this case, the Court will address whether the state statute prohibiting persons between the ages of 18 and 20 from possessing or consuming alcoholic beverages conflicts with the South Carolina Constitution, which extends full legal rights and responsibilities to citizens above the age of 18 with the exception that the General Assembly may restrict the sale of alcohol to persons under the age of 21.

Robert L. Widener, of McNair Law Firm, P.A., of Columbia, and Stephen Edward Carter, of McNair Law Firm, P.A. of Hilton Head Island, for Petitioners. C. Mitchell Brown, of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, L.L.P., of Columbia, Richard A. Farrier, Jr., Walter T. Cox, III and Andrea St. Amand, all of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, L.L.P., of Charleston and I. S. Leevy Johnson, of Johnson, Toal & Battiste, P.A., of Columbia, for Respondents.

This Court granted a petition for a writ of certiorari to review the decision in Alexander's Land Co. v. M&M&K Corp., Op. No. 2007-UP-364 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Aug. 29, 2007), in which the Court of Appeals reversed a circuit court ruling and remanded the matter for an order specifically enforcing an option to purchase real estate. The Court of Appeals held that, except for failing to meet a condition precedent, the buyer had properly exercised the option; therefore, the seller should have given the buyer notice of default and a thirty-day, right-to-cure period as contemplated by the parties' agreements. The circuit court had ruled the option was not subject to a right-to-cure provision and had declined the buyer’s request for specific enforcement.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Robert D. Cook, Assistant Deputy Attorney General J. Emory Smith, Jr., all of Office of the Attorney General, of Columbia, for Appellant, State of South Carolina. G. Trenholm Walker, W. Andrew Gowder, Jr. and Daniel S. McQueeney, Jr., all of Pratt-Thomas Walker, P.A., of Charleston, for Appellants, Christopher Ward Campbell, Gregory Scott Kinsey and Coastal Conservation League. Shemuel Ben Yisrael, of Yemassee, Appellant, pro se. Roberts Vaux and Deborah Boshaw, both of Vaux & Marscher, P.A., of Bluffton, for Respondent, The Town of Yemassee. Frances I. Cantwell, of Regan & Cantwell, of Charleston, for Respondents, Binden Plantation, LLC, Castle Hill Farms and Raymond B. Basso.

In this challenge to an annexation ordinance, appellants seek review of the grant of summary judgment in favor of respondents and of the denial of the State’s motions to intervene or be substituted as the real party in interest.

Senior Appellate Defender Joseph L. Savitz, III, of South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, of Columbia, for Appellant. Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka and Assistant Attorney General Brendan J. McDonald, all of Office of the Attorney General, of Columbia, and Solicitor Harold W. Gowdy, III, of Spartanburg, for Respondent.

This case, under this Court’s original jurisdiction, concerns whether, during the sentencing phase of a capital murder trial, there is a violation of Rule 403, SCRE, to introduce autopsy photographs of victims and whether there is a violation of S.C. Code Section 16-3-25(C)(1) or Rule 403, SCRE, to introduce a video recording of Appellant in the detention center following his conviction.

David Dusty Rhoades, of Charleston, and Cynthia Barrier Patterson, of Columbia, for Respondent. Disciplinary Counsel Lesley M. Coggiola and Deputy Disciplinary Counsel Barbara M. Seymour, both of Columbia for Office of Disciplinary Counsel.

This is an attorney disciplinary case.

N. Ward Lambert and R. Patrick Smith, both of Harper, Lambert & Brown, P.A., of Greenville, for Appellant. James W. Logan, Jr. and Stacey Todd Coffee, both of Logan, Jolly & Smith, LLP, of Anderson, for Respondent, Clemson University. Christian M. Emanuel, of Columbia, for Respondent, South Carolina Procurement Review Panel. Keith C. McCook, Frank S. Potts and Edwin E. Evans, all of Columbia, for Respondent, Chief Procurement Officer.

This case concerns whether the general interest statute found at S.C. Code Ann. 29-6-50 applies to a state entity when the party requesting the interest did not meet the requirements for an award of interest under S.C. Code Ann. 34-31-20(A).

Samuel Darryl Harms, of Harms Law Firm, of Greenville, for Appellant. Assistant City Attorney Robert Patrick Coler, of Greenville, for Respondent.

In this case, Appellant challenges the circuit court’s finding that a city ordinance did not violate his First Amendment right to freedom of speech.

Sean J. Prendergast, of Mt. Pleasant, Respondent, pro se. Disciplinary Counsel Lesley M. Coggiola and Assistant Disciplinary Counsel Ericka M. Williams, both of Columbia for Office of Disciplinary Counsel.

This is an attorney disciplinary matter.