COLUMBIA v. A.C.L.U. OF SOUTH CAROLINA

No. 24475.

475 S.E.2d 747 (1996)

CITY OF COLUMBIA, Respondent, v. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF SOUTH CAROLINA, INC., and Kevin Alexander Gray, a/k/a Khalid Aikiiki Gamba, Appellants.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided August 12, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lex A. Rogerson, Jr. of Lexington; and Armand G. Derfner, Charleston, for Appellants.

James S. Meggs, City Attorney for the City of Columbia, for Respondent.

Jay Bender and Virginia C. Ravenel, both of Baker, Barwick, Ravenel & Bender, L.L.P., Columbia, for South Carolina Press Association as Amicus Curiae.


BURNETT, Justice:

This is an action for declaratory judgment arising under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), S.C.Code Ann. §§ 30-4-10 to -110 (1991 & Supp.1994). Appellants appeal the trial court's grant of summary judgment to Respondent, which we reverse, and the denial of Appellants' motion to compel, which we affirm.

FACTS

On December 31, 1992, a group of teenagers was playing basketball when several plainclothes...

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