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December 2006 |
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The summary below each case is prepared to offer lawyers and the public a general overview of what issues are included in a case which will be argued. The summary is not a limit on what issues a party to a case may present at oral argument.
Tuesday, December 5, 2006 | |
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4302 Darrell Williams, Class Representative, Lawrence Green, Archie Simmons, Willie Kelly, McGill Bailey, Keith Kelly, Gene Richardson, Clark Green, Kevin Commander, Russell Deas, Toney Fryson, James Feno, Gladstone Cummings, Calvin Drummond, Victor Brown, Zawaski Cobb, Stanley Garrett, David Harrell, Richard Cheeks, Timothy Brown, Michael Floyd, Larry Smith, Christopher Marshall, Percy Martin, Malik Aljalil, Andre Gibson, Aaron Gleason, Howard Grant, Leslie Brown, Derek Carter, Kenneth Carter, Carlos Gilmore, Shannon Hicks, Bruce Howser, James Mixon, Willie Hare, Michael McClinton, Stanley Davis, Sheldon Clark, Matin Muntagin, Johnny Holden, Nikia Law, Harry Leonard, Mark Lipscomb, Steven Love, Nicholas Lambros, Thomas Johnson, Michael Watson, Curtis Thompson, Curtis Thompson, Ralph Sellars, Stephen Lease, Earl Mack, David Matthews, Jerome Scott, Charles Morrison, James Sattler, Orlando Williams, Richard Butler, Nathan LeGrand, Nehemiah Greene, Tyrone Aiken, Kenneth White, Richard Graham, Daryl Robinson, Chauncy Orr, Joseph Schmitz, Alvin Stewart, Robert Gregory, Harold Roberson, Reginald Christopher, Heyward Dempsey, Heriberto Clarke, Samuel Mason, Gilbert Masia, James Murray, Robert Norris, Charles Burrough, Lorrenzo Daly, Chris King, Jerry Hodge, Willie Laster, Ernest Miller, Richard Newman, Ronnie Jones, Francis Ackerman, William Miller, John Wojcik, Jamie Bloodworth, Todd Brewer, Ronald Simmons, Michael Nelson, James Scott, Luther Gregory, Gary Hayes, Michael Baylor, Leroy Berntsen, Isaac Blake, Gary Forrest, Chris Steele, Eric Bragg, Ronald Barney, Marcus Campbell, Johnny Mayes, Raymond Livingston, James Trumper, Kamathene Cooper, Harold Sharpe, Maxie Gamble, Frank Anderson, Ray Gadsden, Calvin Byrd, Larry Green, Alvin White, Charles Chatman, Leroy Choice, Harlon Edger, Perry Deveaux, Darryel Beasley, Stephen Paddock, Dennis Goff, Joe Thompson, Percy Booth, Johnny Hayes, James McGadden, Henry Baker, Waymon Newton, Edsell McNeill, Antonio Richardson, Linso Allen, Wilbert Mills, Chuck Jackson, Timothy Wilson, Kerlan Etheridge, Matthew Cooper, Samuel Martin, Kenneth Rouse, Wilson Kinard, Tony Fair, Edward Wesson, Rodney Ladson, Jerome Durham, Everisto Castana, Steve Hanna, Randy Guthery, Mitchell Canty, Gregory Grant, Terrell Buchanon, Herbert Dorsey, Fred Randall, Charles Rish, Germaine Pringle, Curley Keenon, Rodney Vereen, Stephen Vereen, Donnie Bracey, Edward Simpson, Jerry Butler, Edward Best, Jammie Gaymon, Tyrone Ancrum, Franklin Milford, William Mills, James Wilbanks, Ronald Young, Leonard Garner, Lamar Anderson, Wayne Harlen, Levarrio Simmons, Tony Whitt, Robert Wydman, James Wells, Robert Doby, Arthur Scott, John Hunley, Chauncey Thomas, Tony McNeil, Winston Fields, Matthew Cooper, Stoney McClendon, Baron Cobbs, Jonathon Matthews, Cecil Daniels, Sharod Washington, Pete Bryant, Alain Lareau, Steven Hickenbottom, Alfred Joyner, Marvin Stevenson, Joseph Sampson, Anthony English, Patrick Curtis, Charles Bennett, David Morgan, Otis Chisholm, Elwood White, Derrian Spann, Cedric White, James Jackson, Lazarus Brannon, Gilbert King, Cedric Partlow, Nathan Hodge, Mark Kriskov, Peter Jenkins, Kenneth Simmons, Taurus Bowman, Quintin Daniels, William Thomas, Clifton Curtis, Dennis Richey, Larry Reed, Bruce Davis, Howard Grant, John Moultrie, Raymond Pitchers, Virgil Simpson, Bernard Felder, Bernard Laux, Joe Parnell, Patrick Simmons, Sidney Taylor, Mendell Stone, Michael Benninger, Royce Carson, George Hall, Shawn White, Don Robinson, Larkland Richards, Roberto Lnu, Appellants v. South Carolina Department of Corrections and Williams Technologies, Inc., Respondents. 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.
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4303 Kellie Lindler, Appellant v. The South Carolina Workers' Compensation Commission and the South Carolina Budget and Control Board, Respondents. 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.
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4304 Responsible Economic Development, Angela Ketchum, Carolyn Jebaily, Peggy Brown, Rachell Hyman, Bobby Griffin, Walter Sallenger, its Members and Directors, Appellants v. South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and Wal-Mart Stores East, LP, Respondents. 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.
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Wednesday, December 6, 2006 | |
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4305 The State, Respondent/Petitioner v. William Larry Childers, Jr., Petitioner/ Respondent. 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.
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4306 Ex Parte: Government Employee's Insurance Company, Appellant. In Re: Ronnie Cooper, Respondent v. Yolanda Goethe, Respondent. 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.
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4310 Robert Gecy, Respondent v. Tammy Bagwell, Appellant. 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.
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Thursday, December 7, 2006 | |
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4308 Key Corporate Capital, Inc., National Tax Assistance Corporation, TransAm Tax Certificate Corporate d/b/a Destiny 98TD, Advantage 99TD, TA Escrow 97 and Destiny 98, Respondents v. County of Beaufort, Treasurer of Beaufort County and Tax Collector of Beaufort County, Petitioners. 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.
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4309 Martha Geathers, Claimant v. 3V, Inc., Employer, and EBI Companies and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Carriers/Defendants, of whom EBI Companies is the Petitioner and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company is the Respondent. 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.
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4307 The State, Appellant v. Rita Greenwood Bixby, Respondent. 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.
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Quentin L. Smith, Petitioner v. State of South Carolina, Respondent. |
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C. Rauch Wise, of Greenwood, for Petitioner. Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh and Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, all of Columbia, for Respondent. |
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Gary Waiters, Respondent v. State of South Carolina, Petitioner. |
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Attorney General Henry D. McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott and Assistant Attorney General Colleen E. Dixon, all of Columbia, for Petitioner. Chief Attorney Joseph L. Savitz, III, of South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, of Columbia, for Respondent. |
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Robert Holland Koon, Respondent v. State of South Carolina, Petitioner. |
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Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott and Assistant Attorney General Molly R. Crum, all of Columbia, for Petitioner. Deputy Chief Attorney Wanda H. Carter, of South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, of Columbia, for Respondent. |
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Creuncle D. Suber, Respondent v. State of South Carolina, Petitioner. |
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Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott and Assistant Attorney General Julie M. Thames, all of Columbia, for Petitioner. Appellate Defender Robert M. Pachak, of South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, of Columbia, for Respondent. |
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David Arnal, Appellant v. Laura Fraser, Respondent. |
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David Emil Arnal, of Marietta, GA, pro se Appellant. Donald Bruce Clark, of Charleston, Susan Rosen and Robert Rosen, both of Rosen Law Firm, LLC, of Charleston, for Respondent. |