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Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Supreme Court Courtroom
2024-001518
The State, Respondent, v. John Joseph Erb, Petitioner.
Senior Assistant Public Defender Benjamin Andrew Mack, Assistant Public Defender Patrick Corbett and Circuit Public Defender Cameron Jane Blazer, of Charleston, for Petitioner. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General W. Jeffrey Young, Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, and Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Melody Jane Brown, all of Columbia; and Solicitor Scarlett Anne Wilson, of Charleston, for Respondent.
The trial court denied Erb's petition for habeas corpus, denied his motion for entry of a verdict, and found that jeopardy has not attached to Erb's murder indictment. We issued a common law writ of certiorari to review only the portion of the trial court's ruling that provides the State may "retry the Defendant for Murder."
2023-001655
James E. Carroll, Jr., Petitioner, v. Isle of Palms Pest Control, Inc., SPM Management Company, Inc. and Terminix Service, Inc., Defendants, Of which Isle of Palms Pest Control, Inc. and SPM Management Company, Inc. are Respondents.
Robert T. Lyles, Jr., of Lyles & Associates, LLC, and Jody Vann McKnight, of McKnight Law Firm, both of Mount Pleasant; Lee Anne Walters, of Walters Law Firm, of Beaufort, all for Petitioners. Robert Michael Ethridge and Mary Skahan Willis, of Ethridge Law Group, LLC, of Mount Pleasant, for Respondent SPM Pest Management Company, Inc. Andrew Elliott Haselden and Kelley Shull Cannon, both of Howser, Newman & Besley, LLC, of Charleston, for Respondent Isle of Palms Pest Control, Inc.
We granted Petitioner's petition for a writ of certiorari to review of the court of appeals' decision in Carroll v. Isle of Palms Pest Control, Inc., 441 S.C. 1, 892 S.E.2d 161 (Ct. App. 2023). We will consider whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the circuit court's order granting partial summary judgment in favor of Isle of Palms Pest Control and SPM Management Company, Inc. (collectively, Respondents) as to Petitioner's negligence claims based on its holdings that the economic loss doctrine applied in this case and that Petitioner failed to identity any duties Respondents owed to him outside the parties' contract. Additionally, we will consider whether (1) the circuit court acted properly in not considering Petitioner's response to the motion for partial summary judgment and (2) Petitioner abandoned the issue of whether he was entitled to $250,000 for each year the Respondents were in breach of the parties' contract.
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Supreme Court Courtroom
2023-001601
Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC, Assignee of Synchrony Bank/HH Gregg , Petitioner, v. Jennifer Campney, Respondent, and Jennifer Campney, Third-party Plaintiff, v. Cooling & Winter, LLC, Third-party Defendant, of whom Jennifer Campney is the Respondent.
Caren D. Enloe, of Smith Debnam Law, of Raleigh, NC and Jesse Ronald Jones, Jr., of Smith Debnam Law, of Charleston, for Petitioner. John R. Cantrell, Jr., of Cantrell Legal PC, of St. Matthews, for Respondent. Carolyn Grube Lybarker and Kelly Hunter Rainsford, both of Columbia, for Amicus Curiae South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs.
2024-000355
The State, Respondent, v. Charles Dent, Petitioner.
E. Charles Grose, Jr., of The Grose Law Firm, LLC, of Greenwood, for Petitioner. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Assistant Attorney General John Benjamin Aplin, both of Columbia; and Solicitor Isaac McDuffie Stone, III, of Beaufort, for Respondent.
The Court granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in State v. Dent, 442 S.C. 38, 897 S.E.2d 46 (Ct. App. 2023).