A. Camden Lewis and Ariail E. King, of Lewis & Babcock, LLP, and Richard A. Harpootlian, all of Columbia, for Plaintiff. Attorney General Alan Wilson, Deputy Attorney General Robert D. Cook and Assistant Deputy Attorney General J. Emory Smith, Jr., of Office of the Attorney General, and Ray N. Stevens, of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein, LLP, Milton G. Kimpson, Carol I. McMahan, Adam I. Marinelli, Sarah A. Powell and Harry T. Cooper, Jr., all of Columbia, for Defendants. Bradley S. Wright and Charles F. Reid, of Columbia, for Amicus Curiae, Robert W. Harrell, Jr. and W. Brian White. Michael R. Hitchcock, John P. Hazzard, V and Robert E. Maldonado, for Amicus Curiae, Glenn F. McConnell and Hugh K. Leatherman. Burnet Rhett Maybank, III, of Nexsen Pruet, LLC, of Columbia, for Amicus Curiae, South Carolina Manufacturer's Alliance. John C. von Lehe, Jr. and Bryson M. Geer, of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, of Charleston, for Amicus Curiae, Council on State Taxation.

Matthew Bodman (Plaintiff) filed a Petition for Original Jurisdiction and Summons and Complaint against the State of South Carolina and the South Carolina Department of Revenue seeking to declare unconstitutional the sale tax caps and exemptions contained in S.C. Code Ann. §§ 12-36-2110 and 12-36-2120 (Supp. 2010). Plaintiff argues that the statutes' tax scheme has become so riddled with exemptions that it undermined the statutes' purpose of funding public education and that the sheer number of exemptions and overbroad classifications violated the constitutional prohibition against special legislation and equal protection under the law.

Attorney General Alan Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka and Senior Assistant Attorney General William Edgar Salter, III, of Office of the Attorney General, of Columbia, and Solicitor Scarlett Anne Wilson, of Charleston, for Petitioner. Timothy C. Kulp, of Charleston, for Respondent.

The Court granted certiorari to review the Court of Appeals decision in State v. Tapp, 387 S.C. 158, 691 S.E.2d 165 (2010).

Disciplinary Counsel Lesley M. Coggiola and Assistant Disciplinary Counsel Joseph P. Turner, of Columbia, for the Office of Disciplinary Counsel. Michael T. Hursey, of Myrtle Beach, pro se Respondent.

This is an attorney disciplinary matter.

Donald E. Jonas, of Lexington, for Appellant. W. Allen Nickles, III and Matthew A. Nickles, of Nickles Law Firm, of Columbia, for Respondent.

This is an appeal from an order granting summary judgment.

J. Edward Bell, III, of Georgetown, for Appellants. Clarke W. DuBose and Sarah Spruill, of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A., of Columbia, for Respondent. John S. Nichols, of Bluestein, Nichols, Thompson and Delgado,LLC, of Columbia, for Amicus Curiae Law Professors.

In this design defect case, the Graves first appeal the circuit court’s exclusion of their expert witnesses because they did not meet the reliability factors set forth in State v. Council, 335 S.C. 1, 515 S.E.2d 508 (1999). The Graves also appeal the circuit court’s finding that post-deposition affidavits submitted by their computer science experts were sham affidavits. They finally appeal the court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of CAS Medical Systems, arguing either they submitted sufficient direct evidence to survive summary judgment with their expert testimony or sufficient circumstantial evidence if that testimony should have been excluded.

Chief Appellate Defender Robert M. Dudek, of South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, of Columbia, for Petitioner. Attorney General Alan Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott and Assistant Attorney General Mark R. Farthing, of Office of the Attorney General, of Columbia, and Solicitor Kevin Scott Brackett, of York, for Respondent.

Kevin Cornelius Odems, Petitioner, appeals the Court of Appeals decision affirming the trial court’s refusal to issue a directed verdict on the charges of first degree burglary, grand larceny, criminal conspiracy, and malicious injury to an electronic utility meter. Petitioner argues that the State did not present substantial circumstantial evidence that he was guilty of the crimes charged.

Assistant Solicitor C. Denton Matthews and Assistant Solicitor Katryna B. Salisbury, of Greenville, for Appellant-Respondent. Desa Ballard and Stephanie Weissenstein, of Law Offices of Desa Ballard, of West Columbia, Billy J. Garrett, Jr. and Carson McCurry Henderson, both of Greenwood and Charles M. Groves, of Chapman Harter & Groves PA, of Greenville, for Respondent-Appellant.

Both parties seek review of the circuit court’s findings on appeal from magistrate’s court.

H. Stanley Feldman, of Charleston, for Petitioner. Attorney General Alan Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott and Assistant Attorney General William M. Blitch, Jr., of Office of the Attorney General, of Columbia, and Solicitor Scarlett Anne Wilson, of Charleston, for Respondent.

This Court granted a petition for a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the Court of Appeals in State v. Binnarr, Op. No. 2010-UP-077 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Feb. 2, 2010), in which the Court of Appeals affirmed Petitioner’s conviction for failing to register as a sex offender.

Disciplinary Counsel Lesley M. Coggiola and Senior Assistant Disciplinary Counsel C. Tex Davis, Jr., of Columbia, for the Office of Disciplinary Counsel. J. Steedley Bogan, of Columbia, for Respondent.

This is an attorney disciplinary matter.