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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

09:30 a.m.     (Time Limits: 15-15-5)  
2022-000756   Debi Baker Brookshire, Petitioner, v. Community First Bank and Benjamin Hiott, Defendants, Of Which Community First Bank is the Respondent.

Warren Blair Giese and Kelly Lloyd Giese, of The Giese Law Firm, LLC, of Columbia; and Jonathan D. Waller, of Aiken, all for Petitioner. Robert Yates Knowlton, Sr. and Elizabeth Halligan Black, of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, PA, of Columbia, for Respondent.

We granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in Brookshire v. Community First Bank, 2022-UP-163 (S.C. Ct. App. filed April 6, 2022). We will review whether the court of appeals erred in (1) not ruling why the debt owed to Brookshire was not governed by S.C. Code Ann. Section 15-3-110; (2) finding there was a single trigger date for the statute of limitations in this case, when the alleged injuries were multiple and continuing; and (3) determining that equitable tolling did not suspend the statute of limitations clock and estop Community First from asserting the statute of limitations?

10:30 a.m.     (Time Limits: 20-20-10)  
2022-000914   The State, Respondent, v. Richard Kenneth Galloway, Petitioner.

Appellate Defender Joanna Katherine Delany for Petitioner. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Senior Assistant Attorney General Joshua A. Edwards, both of Columbia; and Solicitor William Walter Wilkins, III, of Greenville, for Respondent.

We granted a petition for a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the court of appeals in State v. Galloway, 436 S.C. 453, 872 S.E.2d 646, (Ct. App. 2022). Galloway argues the trial court erred by 1) excluding certain expert testimony, 2) admitting testimony in violation of 404(b), SCRE, and 3) admitting testimony about the contents of a letter.

11:30 a.m.     (Time Limits: 15-15-5)  
2022-001028   Alison Meyers, Petitioner, v. Shiram Hospitality, LLC, Respondent.

Stephanie Holmes Burton, of Gibbes Burton, LLC, of Spartanburg; and Brendan R. Appel, pro hac vice, of Northfield, IL, both for Petitioner. C. Scott Masel, of Newby, Sartip & Masel, LLC, of Myrtle Beach, for Respondent.

We granted Meyers' petition for a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision affirming the circuit court in Meyers v. Shiram Hospitality, LLC, Op. No. 2022-UP-214 (S.C. Ct. App. filed May 18, 2022). We will determine whether the circuit court erred in denying Meyer's motion for entry of an Illinois default judgment on the basis that the Illinois court lacked personal jurisdiction over Shiram Hospitality, LLC.