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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

Melanie Taylor, Petitioner,

v.

Converse College, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2013-000125

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Spartanburg County The Honorable J. Derham Cole, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2014-MO-046 Heard November 20, 2014 – Filed December 3, 2014

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Nancy Bloodgood and Lucy C. Sanders, of Foster Law Firm, LLC, of Charleston, for Petitioner.

Thomas H. Keim, Jr., of Ford & Harrison, LLP of Spartanburg, for Respondent. PER CURIAM: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in Taylor v. Converse College, Op. No. 2012-UP-601 (S.C. Ct. App. Nov. 7, 2012). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

PLEICONES, Acting Chief Justice, BEATTY, HEARN, JJ., and Acting Justices James E. Moore and Paul M. Burch, concur.