ARMY NAVY BINGO, GARRISON #2196 v. PLOWDEN

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281 S.C. 226 (1984)

314 S.E.2d 339

ARMY NAVY BINGO, GARRISON #2196, Appellant-Respondent, v. Charles N. PLOWDEN, Chairman, John T. Weeks, Commissioner and Samuel Hunter Howard, Jr., Commissioner, constituting the South Carolina Tax Commission, Respondents-Appellants.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

April 2, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Holmes, Thomson, Logan & Cantrell, Charleston; and Thomas E. Huff, Belvedere; and Richard J. Magner, of Bryan & Magner, Laurens, for appellant-respondent.

Atty. Gen. T. Travis Medlock, Deputy Atty. Gen. Joe L. Allen, Jr., and Asst. Attys. Gen. Ronald W. Urban and William K. Moore, Columbia, for respondents-appellants.


April 2, 1984.

HARWELL, Justice:

This action challenges the constitutionality of the prize limitations and the residence requirement for bingo operators found in S.C. Code Ann. § 12-21-2590 (1983). The bingo operators assert that the statute violates the Fourteenth Amendment due process clause. We disagree.

The trial held the prize limitations constitutional and the residence requirement unconstitutional. We hold that neither the limits on prizes...

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