DUGGINS v. South Carolina Election Commission, Respondent/Nominal Defendant. (2020)

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Regina DUGGINS and Chaunta R. Hamilton, Petitioners, v. Jay LUCAS, in his capacity as Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Harvey Peeler, in his capacity as President of the Senate, Respondents, South Carolina Election Commission, Respondent/Nominal Defendant.

Appellate Case No. 2020-001042

Decided: September 23, 2020

Christopher Phillip Kenney, of Richard A. Harpootlian, PA; and Shaundra Young Scott, of South Carolina Democratic Party, both of Columbia, for Petitioners. Kevin A. Hall and Matthew Todd Carroll, both of Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP; and Kenneth M. Moffitt, all of Columbia, for Respondent Harvey S. Peeler Jr.; Robert E. Tyson Jr., Vordman Carlisle Traywick III, and Robert E. Stepp, all of Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC, of Columbia, for Respondent James H. Lucas; Harrison D. Brant, Mary Elizabeth Crum, Jane W. Trinkley, and William Grayson Lambert, all of Burr & Forman, LLP, of Columbia, for Respondent The South Carolina Election Commission. LaNelle Cantey DuRant, of Columbia, for Amicus Curiae The League of Women Voters of South Carolina. Attorney General Alan Wilson, Solicitor General Robert D. Cook, Deputy Solicitor General J. Emory Smith Jr., and Assistant Attorney General Harley Kirkland, of Columbia, for Amicus Curiae Attorney General Alan Wilson.