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South Carolina Court of Appeals Courtroom I
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.
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
10:00 a.m. (Time Limits: 10-10-5-5-5)
2023-000287 Barbara Jones as Guardian ad Litem and South Carolina Department of Social Services, Plaintiffs, v. Jessie Walters and Lucius Blake Walters, Defendants, Of which South Carolina Department of Social Services and Jessie Walters are Respondents, Barbara Jones is Appellant-Respondent, and Lucius Blake Walters is Respondent-Appellant. In the interest of minor children under the age of eighteen.
Jennifer Lynn Mook, of Law Office of Jennifer Mook, LLC, of Aiken, for Appellant-Respondent. Bruce A. Byrholdt, of Byrholdt Drawdy, LLC, of Anderson, for Respondent-Appellant. Robert Mills Ariail, Jr., of Law Office of R. Mills Ariail, Jr., of Greenville, for Respondent Jessie Walters. Amanda Stiles, of Greenville, for Respondent SCDSS.
Lucius Blake Walters (Father) and Barbara Jones, in her capacity as guardian ad litem (GAL), cross appeal a family court order terminating Father's parental rights to his two minor children (Children). Father argues the family court erred in finding clear and convincing evidence supported terminating his parental rights on three statutory grounds: (1) that Children were harmed, and due to the severity or repetition of the abuse or neglect, it was unlikely Father's home could be made safe within twelve months; (2) that Father willfully failed to support Children; and (3) that Children were in foster care for fifteen of the previous twenty two months. He also argues the family court erred in finding termination of parental rights was in Children's best interests. The GAL argues the family court erred in finding clear and convincing evidence did not show Father failed to remedy the conditions that caused Children's removal.
10:40 a.m. (Time Limits: 10-10-5)
2022-000348 Custom Performance Engineering, Inc., Respondent-Appellant, v. AM Industrial Group, LLC, Appellant-Respondent.
Carmen Vaughn Ganjehsani and Robert Wilder Harte, both of Richardson Plowden & Robinson, PA, of Columbia, for Appellant-Respondent. Adam Crittenden Bach, of Tonnsen Bach, LLC, and Emily R. Godwin, both of Greenville, for Respondent-Appellant.
11:20 a.m. (Time Limits: 10-10-5)
2023-000436 Timothy J. Judy and Dana A. Judy, Respondents, v. Alice Soto, Joseph B. Rodriguez, Matthew Rodriguez, Gwen Rodriguez and Stephanie B. Wells, Appellants.
Matthew Tillman, of Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP, of Charleston, for Appellants. Michael Pinckney Horger, Sr., of Michael P. Horger, LLC, of Orangeburg, for Respondents.
This case arises from a dispute over ownership of property located between a parcel owned by Timothy and Dana Judy and property owned by Alice Soto. Appellants assert the master-in-equity erred in finding the Judys owned the disputed property. Appellants further challenge the master's injunction requiring Soto to remove a fence from the disputed parcel and prohibiting Soto, Joseph B. Rodriguez, Matthew Rodriguez, Gwen Rodriguez, and Stephanie B. Wells (collectively, Appellants) from entering the property.
South Carolina Court of Appeals Courtroom II
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, June 4, 2024
10:40 a.m. (Time Limits: 10-10-5)
2022-001587 315 Corley CW LLC; 368 Mount Pelia LLC; Bridge Charleston Investments B LLC; Bridge Charleston Investments C LLC; Bridge Charleston Investments E LLC; Bridge Charleston Investments H LLC; Anne Bosler and Dylan Hart as Trustees of the Bosler-Hart Trust; Geoffrey J. Block; R. Jeffrey Kimball and Deborah S. Kimball; Sebrina Leigh-Jones and Chris Leigh-Jones; Jennifer Albero; Live Oak Assets LLC; Matthew N. Lynch and Barbara A. Lynch; MKM 22 West LLC; One Rumford Lane LLC; Salt Works LLC; and TTJR LLC; individually, derivatively, and as class representatives, as set forth herein, Respondents/Appellants, v. Palmetto Bluff Development, LLC; Palmetto Bluff Club, LLC; Palmetto Bluff Real Estate Company, LLC; PBLH, LLC; Montage Palmetto Bluff, LLC; Palmetto Bluff Preservation Trust, Inc.; Palmetto Bluff Preservation Trust Board of Stewards: Jordan Phillips; Mark Polites; Gray Ferguson; Henry Armistead; South Street Partners, LLC; John Does 1-25, Appellants/Respondents.
Val H. Stieglitz, III, of Maynard Nexsen LLP, of Columbia; Robert Bruce Wallace, of Maynard Nexsen, PC, of Charleston; Kirsten Elena Small, of Maynard Nexsen, PC, of Greenville; and Donald Falk, of San Francisco, CA, all for Appellants-Respondents. Ian S. Ford, Hunter H James, and Ainsley Fisher Tillman, all of Ford Wallace Thomson LLC, of Charleston, for Respondents-Appellants.
11:20 a.m. (Time Limits: 10-10-5)
2022-001665 In the Matter of James Marshall Shoemaker, Jr., James Marshall Shoemaker, III, Appellant, v. Lesley R. Moore, Esq., as Personal Representative and Trustee, and Edward Sloan Shoemaker and Jonathan Evans Shoemaker as Beneficiaries and as Individuals, Respondents. And James Marshall Shoemaker, III, Petitioner/Plaintiff, v. Lesley R. Moore, Esq. as Personal Representative and Trustee, Edward Sloan Shoemaker and Jonathan Evans Shoemaker, Respondents/Defendants.
William R. McKibbon, III, of Greenville, for Appellant. Tyler Earl McLeod and Julia Virginia Hendricks McLeod, both of Brown Massey Evans McLeod & Haynsworth, LLC, of Greenville, for Respondents.