PUBLIC INTEREST FOUNDATION v. LUCAS

No. 27638.

416 S.C. 269 (2016)

786 S.E.2d 124

SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST FOUNDATION and Edward D. Sloan, Jr., individually, and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Petitioners, v. James H. "Jay" LUCAS, as Speaker of the S.C. House of Representatives, Henry D. McMaster, as President of the S.C. Senate, and The State of South Carolina, Respondents. Hugh K. Leatherman, Sr., in his capacity as President Pro Tempore of the South Carolina Senate, Intervenor.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided May 18, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James G. Carpenter, Esquire , of Carpenter Law Firm, PC, of Greenville, for petitioners.

Michael J. Anzelmo , and Blake Terence Williams , both of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough; Richard L. Pearce , Patrick G. Dennis , and Charles Fennell Reid , all of Columbia, for respondent James H. "Jay" Lucas, Jr.; Attorney General, Alan McCrory Wilson and Deputy Solicitor General, J. Emory Smith, Jr. , both of Columbia, for respondents State of South Carolina and Lieutenant Governor, Henry D. McMaster.

Kenneth M. Moffitt and Edward Houseal Bender , both of Columbia, for Intervenor Hugh K. Leatherman, Sr.


We agreed to hear this constitutional challenge to the 2015-16 Appropriations Act in our original jurisdiction.1 Petitioners contend, and we agree, that the inclusion of Proviso 84.182 in that act violates the "one subject...

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