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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
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2023-001351
Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, Appellant, v. South Carolina Department of Environmental Services and Dominion Energy, Respondents.
Stephen A. Spitz, of A Business Law Firm, of Charleston and Jesse Sanchez, of The Law Office of Jesse Sanchez, LLC, of Mount Pleasant, both for Appellant. Bennett W. Smith, Christopher Patrick Whitehead, and Karen Christine Ratigan, all of South Carolina Department of Environmental Services, of Columbia, for Respondent South Carolina Department of Environmental Services. Elizabeth B. Partlow, of Law Offices of Elizabeth B. Partlow, LLC, of West Columbia; and Brooks M. Smith, of Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders, LLP, of Richmond, VA, both for Respondent Dominion Energy, Inc. Emily Wyche and Susan Ness Carlson, of Charleston, Amici Curiae for American Rivers, Black-Sampit Riverkeeper, Catawba Riverkeeper, Charleston Waterkeeper, Congaree Riverkeeper, Friends Of The Edisto, Pee Dee-Lynches Project Coordinator, Savannah Riverkeeper, Save Our Saluda, Waccamaw Riverkeeper and Winyah Rivers Alliance.
This Court certified Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League's appeal to review an order from the administrative law court allowing the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control to issue a 401 Water Quality Certification to Dominion Energy to construct a natural gas pipeline in Florence County.
2024-001227
League of Women Voters of South Carolina, Petitioner, v. Thomas Alexander, in his official capacity as President of the South Carolina Senate; Murrell Smith, in his official capacity as Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives; and Howard Knapp, in his official capacity as Director of the South Carolina Election Commission, Respondents, and Henry Dargan McMaster, in his official capacity as Governor of the State of South Carolina, Respondent-Intervenor.
David Allen Chaney, Jr., of ACLU of South Carolina, of Columbia; Patrick Coleman Wooten and Charles Wilson Daniel, both of Duffy & Young, LLC, of Charleston; Adriel I Cepeda Derieux, of American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, of Washington DC; Sophia Lin Lakin and Theresa J. Lee, both of American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, of New York, NY, all for Petitioner. Robert E. Tyson Jr., Vordman Carlisle Traywick, III, La'Jessica M. Stringfellow, and Sarah Cameron Frierson, all of Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC, of Columbia; John M. Gore, of Jones Day, of Washington DC, for Respondent Senate President Thomas C. Alexander. Mark Carroll Moore and Michael Antonio Parente, of Columbia; and Andrew A. Mathias, of Greenville, all of Maynard Nexsen PC, for Respondent G. Murrell Smith, Jr. Michael Reid Burchstead, Mary Elizabeth Crum, Tracey Colton Green, and Benjamin Roper Jenkins, IV, all of Burr & Forman LLP; and Thomas Wells Nicholson, of S.C. Election Commission, all of Columbia, for Respondent Director Howard Knapp. Chief Legal Counsel Thomas A. Limehouse, Jr., Senior Litigation Counsel & Chief Deputy Legal Counsel William Grayson Lambert, Deputy Legal Counsel Erica W. Shedd, and Deputy Legal Counsel Tyra S. McBride, all of the Office of the Governor, of Columbia, for Intervenor Governor Henry Dargan McMaster. Joshua Snow Kendrick, of Kendrick & Leonard, P.C., of Greenville, for Amicus Curiae Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law and Professor Robert F. Williams. Armand G. Derfner, of Derfner & Altman LLC, of Charleston; Benjamin Phillips of Washington DC and Annabelle Harless of Chicago, Illinois all for Amicus Curiae Campaign Legal Center.
Petitioner has challenged the constitutionality of South Carolina's congressional redistricting plan enacted in 2022 (S.865).