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LEGISLATIVE COVERAGE
Senate
The Senate gavels in at 10 a.m. Watch live here. Calendar. Journal.
House
The House gavels in at 10 a.m. Watch live here. Calendar. Journal.
Combined meeting schedule:
9:00 a.m., Senate Education K-12 Subcommittee on S.622, S.1136, H.3820, H.4596, H.4810 and H.5042, Gressette Room 207, agenda
9:00 a.m., House Business, Commerce, and Administrative Subcommittee of the Regulations and Administrative Procedures Committee, Blatt Room 108, agenda, watch
9:00 a.m., House L.C.I. Public Utilities Subcommittee, Blatt Room 403, agenda
9:30 a.m., Senate L.C.I. Regulatory and Local Government Subcommittee, Gressette Room 307, agenda
9:30 a.m., Senate Environmental Subcommittee (Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee) on H.3218, Gressette Room 407, agenda
9:30 a.m., House Legislative Ethics Committee, Blatt Room 511, agenda
10:00 a.m., House of Representatives, State House, House Chamber, watch
10:00 a.m., Senate Banking and Insurance Subcommittee on H.4628, H.4657 and H.4962, Gressette Room 408, agenda
10:00 a.m., Senate Fish, Game and Forestry Committee, Gressette Room 308, agenda
10:00 a.m., Senate Transportation Committee on H.4672, Gressette Room 209, agenda
10:30 a.m., Senate Banking and Insurance Captive Insurance Company Subcommittee on H.4675, Gressette Room 408, agenda
11:00 a.m., Senate Agricultural Subcommittee on H.4875, H.5063 and H.5152, Gressette Room 407, agenda
11:00 a.m., Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on S.754, S.890, S.909, H.4304, H.4375 and H.4379, Gressette Room 308, agenda
11:00 a.m., Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on H.3197, Gressette Room 207, agenda
12:00 p.m., Senate, State House, Senate Chamber, watch
Immediately upon adjournment of the House, E.P.W. Motor Vehicles Subcommittee, Blatt 433, agenda
3:30 p.m., or upon call of the chair, Senate General - Resolutions and Observances Subcommittee on H.3195 and H.4913, State House, 3rd Floor Conference Room, agenda
CANCELLED, House E.P.W. Transportation Subcommittee on S.932, Blatt Room 433, agenda, watch
SUPREME COURT
9:30 a.m.
Case Title: Charles Gary, Petitioner, v. Hattie M. Askew, Will Outlaw, and Deboria Outlaw, individually and d/b/a Low Country Medical Transport, Low Country Medical Transport, Inc., Eugene A. Kirkland, and American Medical Response, Inc. (d/b/a Access2Care), Defendants. Of Whom American Medical Response, Inc. (d/b/a Access2Care) is the Petitioner.
Attorneys: Joseph Dawson, III, of North Charleston, for Petitioner. Robert H. Hood and Robert Holmes Hood, Jr., both of Hood Law Firm, LLC, of Charleston; C. Mitchell Brown and Brian Patrick Crotty, both of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP, of Columbia, for Respondent.
Summary: The Court reviews the court of appeals' decision in Gary v. Askew, 417 S.C. 232, 789 S.E.2d 94 (Ct. App. 2016), where the court held Respondent American Medical Response, Inc. did not owe a nondelegable duty to Petitioner Charles Gary under the terms of its contract with the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services or on public policy grounds.
10:00 a.m.
Case Title: The State, Petitioner-Respondent, v. Shannon Scott, Respondent-Petitioner.
Attorneys: Chief Appellate Defender Robert M. Dudek, of Columbia, for Respondent-Petitioner. Attorney General Alan M. Wilson, Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Melody J. Brown, Assistant Attorney General Alphonso Simon, Jr., Solicitor Daniel E. Johnson and Assistant Solicitor April Woodard Sampson, all of Columbia, for Petitioner-Respondent.
Summary: In this appeal, Shannon Scott asks us to affirm his grant of immunity from prosecution and civil action under subsection 16-11-450(A) of the South Carolina Code. The State argues the grant of immunity was improper because Scott is not entitled to the presumption in subsection 16-11-440(A) or the presumption in subsection 16-11-440(C).
10:30 a.m.
Case Title: Sierra Club, Respondent, v. South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and Chem-Nuclear Systems, LLC, Defendants, of whom Chem-Nuclear Systems, LLC is Petitioner, and South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control is Respondent.
Attorneys: Stephen P. Groves, Mary D. Shahid and Sara S. Rogers, all of Nexsen Pruet, LLC, of Charleston, for Petitioner. Amy E. Armstrong, of Pawleys Island, Robert Guild, of Columbia and Jacquelyn S. Dickman and Claire H. Prince, both of Columbia, for Respondents.
Summary: This appeal stems from the administrative law court's (ALC) decision to uphold the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control's (DHEC) renewal of the license under which Chem-Nuclear Systems, LLC operates a disposal facility for low-level radioactive waste. The court of appeals affirmed the ALC as to all issues, except four subsections of the regulation governing DHEC's issuance and renewal of such licenses. Sierra Club v. S.C. Dep't of Health & Envtl. Control, 414 S.C. 581, 779 S.E.2d 805 (Ct. App. 2015). This Court granted Chem-Nuclear's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision.
NEWS
Gubernatorial Arms Race South Carolina Lede
S.C. lawmakers wait to vote on electric rate cut as Dominion, SCANA mount campaign against it The Post and Courier
Ahead of vote that may kill Dominion-SCANA deal, study finds sale would help SC economy The State
Before deadly riot, South Carolina bused in violent inmates from other prisons The Post and Courier
Deadly SC prison riot injured 22 inmates, not 17, agency says The State
Newly released video shows inmates roaming Lee prison dorm with knives The State
House Democrats call for investigation of fatal SC prison riot The State
'Cellphones didn't kill 7': SC prison warden should step down after riot, group says The State
This candidate running to be SC governor calls for return of firing squad The State
Evangelicals still stand by Trump in South Carolina, but less than half say he's 'godly' or 'moral' The Post and Courier
Most evangelicals in SC don't think Trump is 'godly.' Here's what they like about him The State
White-collar crime specialist joins State House corruption probe The State
In SC's most crowded race for Congress, fund-raising is setting candidates apart The State
School bus contractor says bus serving a Charleston middle school exceeded capacity The Post and Courier
North Augusta City Council votes on CPST 4 projects, tax revenue and more The Star
William Farley wins Folly Beach council runoff The Post and Courier
How safe is York Co.'s Catawba Nuclear Station? Inspectors have answers The Herald
Tension grows between Nikki Haley, White House over Russia sanctions: 'I don't get confused' The Post and Courier
South Carolina's Mignon Clyburn stepping down from FCC The Post and Courier
Statue of J. Marion Sims, notorious South Carolina doctor, moved out of Manhattan The Post and Courier
GQ profile of Dylann Roof, "A Most American Terrorist," awarded Pulitzer Prize Charleston City Paper
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