Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Carl B. Epps, III , Stephen G. Morrison , and Elizabeth Scott Moise , and Rachel Atkin Hedley , all of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP, of Columbia, and Laura Callaway Hart , of Duff, White, & Turner, LLC, of Columbia, for Appellants-Respondents.
Robert E. Stepp , Elizabeth Van Doren Gray , and Roland M. Franklin, Jr. , all of Sowell Gray Stepp & Lafitte, LLC, of Columbia, for Respondents-Appellants. Attorney General Alan Wilson , Deputy Solicitor General J. Emory Smith, Jr. , and Swati Shah Patel , all of Columbia, for Respondent.
Kenneth L. Childs , William F. Halligan and Keith R. Powell , all of Childs & Halligan, of Columbia, for Amicus Curiae, South Carolina Association of School Administrators and South Carolina School Boards Association.
W. Allen Nickles, III and Susan M. Fittipaldi , both of Nickles Law Firm, of Columbia, for Amicus Curiae, The South Carolina Education Association.
Amanda G. Adler and Sue Berkowitz , both of Columbia, of South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center, for Amicus Curiae, The South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center.
Matthew T. Richardson , of Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham, P.A., of Columbia, and Ellen M. Boylan , of Education Law Center, of Newark, New Jersey, for Amicus Curiae, The League of Women Voters of South Carolina and the South Carolina State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Stephen K. Benjamin and Tina N. Herbert , of McAngus, Goudelock & Courie, of Columbia, for Amicus Curiae, South Carolina Association of School Administrators and South Carolina School Boards Association.
Edward W. Laney, IV and R. Hawthorne Barrett , both of Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A., of Columbia, for Amicus Curiae, South Carolina Association of School Nurses.
