SOUTH CAROLINA STATE CONFERENCE OF THE NAACP 360 v. SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE (2026)

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

SOUTH CAROLINA STATE CONFERENCE OF THE NAACP; Disability Rights South Carolina; Justice 360, Plaintiffs – Appellants v. SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE; Eden Hendrick, in her official capacity as Executive Director of the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice, Defendants – Appellees

Governor Henry Dargan Mcmaster, Amicus Supporting Appellee v. National Disability Rights Network; Disability Rights Maryland; Disability Rights North Carolina; Disability Law Center of Virginia; Disability Rights West Virginia, Amici Supporting Rehearing Petition

No. 25-1032

Decided: March 13, 2026

Jacob D. Alderdice, Jeremy M. Creelan, Jenner & Block LLP, New York, NY, Anthony Peter Ashton, Quiana-Joy Ochiagha, NAACP National Headquarters, Baltimore, MD, Rita Bolt Barker, Wyche, P.A., Greenville, SC, David Allen Chaney, Jr., ACLU of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, Todd A. Costa, New York, NY, Janette Louard, Office of General Counsel, Baltimore, MD, Mary E. Marshall, Jenner & Block, LLP, Washington, DC, Amit B. Patel, Jenner & Block, LLP, Chicago, IL, William Robert Weaver, Boies Schiller Flexner, LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs–Appellants. Sarah Cameron Frierson, Beth Richardson, Robert E. Tyson, Jr., Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC, Columbia, SC, for Defendants–Appellees. William Grayson Lambert, Esq., Tyra S. McBride, Erica Wells Shedd, Office of the Governor of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, Thomas Ashley Limehouse, Jr., Esq., Limehouse LLC, Charleston, SC, for Amicus Supporting Appellee. Kathleen C. Cooperstein, Theodore A. Howard, Myron Zhang, Wiley Rein, LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Supporting Rehearing Petition.