Douglas H. Westbrook, of Charleston, for Appellants. Lake Eric Summers, of Malone, Thompson & Summers, of Columbia, for Respondent South Carolina Department of Corrections. Marcus A. Manos, of Nexsen Pruitt, of Columbia, for Respondent Williams Technologies.

Inmates appeal the dismissal of their complaint seeking lost wages resulting from the Department of Corrections failure to pay the prevailing wage for participation in a prison industries program as provided by statute.

J. Lewis Cromer, of Cromer & Mabry, of Columbia, for Appellant. Keith M. Babcock, of Lewis & Babcock, LLP, of Columbia, for Respondents.

Appellant, a court reporter for the SC Workers’ Compensation Commission, was terminated from her position due to a “reduction in force.” At issue is whether she was entitled to a State Employee Grievance Act review, and whether the State Human Resources director erred in finding he was without jurisdiction to consider an appeal.

Robert Guild, of Columbia, for Appellants. Etta R. Williams, of Columbia, for Respondent South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. James D. Myrick, of Buist, Moore, Smythe & McGee, of Charleston, for Respondent Wal-Mart Stores East, LP.

Appellants appeal the grant of a stormwater management and sediment control permit by South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control to Wal-Mart Stores East, LP, in connection with a proposed store in Florence, South Carolina.

Deputy Chief Attorney for Capital Appeals Robert M. Dudek, of South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, of Columbia, for Petitioner/Respondent. 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 and Solicitor Warren Blair Giese, all of Columbia, for Respondent/Petitioner.

The Court granted cross-petitions for certiorari to review a Court of Appeals decision ordering the defendant a new trial on a murder charge, but affirming two other convictions.

Margaret M. Fanning, of Wilson & Heyward, of Charleston, for Appellant. Peter George Currence, of McDougall & Self, of Columbia, for Respondent Ronnie Cooper. Yolanda Goethe, of Beaufort, pro se Respondent.

Government Employee’s Insurance Company appeals the family court’s denial of its petition to join or intervene in a family court action involving the validity of a common law marriage.

Keith D. Munson, of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, of Greenville and Timothy Edward Hurley, of Greenville, for Appellant. James Theodore Gentry, of Wyche Burgess Freeman & Parham, PA, of Greenville, for Respondent.

Appellant, a candidate for a Simpsonville City Council seat, appeals the circuit court’s order that reversed the decision of the Simpsonville Municipal Election Commission. Respondent initially received more votes, but the Commission ordered a new election based on evidence that several voters cast ballots in the wrong precinct. The circuit court reversed the Commission’s decision and reinstated Respondent as winner of the election.

David S. Black and Mary B. Lohr, both of Howell, Gibson & Hughes, P.A., of Beaufort, for Petitioners. James H. Ritchie, Jr., of Holcombe, Bomar, Gunn & Bradford, PA, of Spartanburg, for Respondents.

This case involves the issue of whether the Court of Appeals correctly decided that respondents are owed the interest accrued on monies paid for properties at tax sales when the County subsequently voided the tax sales.

Kirsten Leslie Barr, of Trask & Howell, of Mt. Pleasant, for Petitioner. Pope D. Johnson, III, of McCutchen Blanton Johnson & Barnette, of Columbia, for Respondent.

In this workers’ compensation case, Petitioner argues the Workers’ Compensation Commission is without legal authority to order EBI to share benefits equally with Liberty Mutual for successive injuries to Claimant when EBI provided coverage for the first injury only and when the second injury was allegedly an aggravation of the first.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, all of Columbia, and Solicitor Jerry W. Peace, of Greenwood, for Appellant. Jeffrey P. Bloom, of Columbia and Joseph Collins Smithdeal, of Ayers, Smithdeal & Bettis, of Greenwood, for Respondent.

This criminal case involves the issue of whether the lower court erred by finding respondent ineligible for the death penalty because she was merely charged with accessory before the fact of murder.