Chavous v. Brown, 23254
Decision Date | 04 June 1990 |
Docket Number | No. 23254,23254 |
Citation | 305 S.C. 387,409 S.E.2d 356 |
Parties | Alden CHAVOUS, Jr., Individually and as Guardian Ad Litem for Alden Chavous, III, a minor, Respondent, v. Herman Wayne BROWN and Joanne Brown, Petitioners. . Heard |
Court | South Carolina Supreme Court |
Robert C. Brown, and J.R. Murphy, both of Brown & Woods, Columbia, for petitioners.
D. Lester Diggs, Aiken, for respondent.
This case was originally before us on a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Appeals' decision reported at 299 S.C. 398, 385 S.E.2d 206 (Ct.App.1989). We reversed the Court of Appeals' holding that Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), applies in a civil action 396 S.E.2d 98. Op. No. 23254 (S.C. S.Ct. filed Aug. 6, 1990). The United States Supreme Court subsequently issued its opinion in Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co., 500 U.S. ----, 111 S.Ct. 2077, 114 L.Ed.2d 660 (1991). On writ of certiorari --- U.S. ----, 111 S.Ct. 2791, 115 L.Ed.2d 966, it remanded this case for reconsideration in light of its holding in Edmonson that the exercise of race-motivated peremptory strikes by a private civil litigant violates Batson.
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