BRANCH v. CITY OF MYRTLE BEACH

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julian H. Gignilliat, Stephen T. Savitz, and M. Richbourg Roberson, all of Gignilliat, Savitz & Bettis, of Columbia; Senior Assistant Attorney General C. Havird Jones, Jr., of Columbia, for petitioners.

Howell V. Bellamy, Jr. and Douglas Zayicek, of Bellamy, Rutenberg, Copeland, Epps, Gravely & Bowers, P.A., of Myrtle Beach; Erick J. Genser and Kurt T. Rumsfeld, of Mulholland & Hickey, of Washington, D. C., for respondents.

Roy D. Bates, of Columbia, for Amicus Municipal Association of South Carolina.

John G. Creech, D. Christopher Lauderdale and D. Randle Moody, II, all of Haynsworth Baldwin Johnson & Greaves, LLC, of Greenville, for Amicus South Carolina Chamber of Commerce.

Armand Derfner and D. Peters Wilborn, Jr., of Charleston, for Amicus AFL-CIO.