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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

David W. Keller, Respondent,

v.

ING Financial Partners, Inc., William C. Johnson, Diversified Business Concepts, Inc., and Jackson National Life Insurance Company, Defendants,

Of Whom ING Financial Partners, Inc., William C. Johnson, and Diversified Business Concepts, Inc., are, Petitioners.

Appellate Case No. 2013-000651

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Greenville County D. Garrison Hill, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2015-MO-006 Heard February 5, 2015 – Filed February 11, 2015

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED Ashley Bryan Abel and Thomas Chase Samples, both of Jackson Lewis, P.C., of Greenville, for Petitioners.

Pierce Talmadge MacLennan, H. Donald Sellers and J. W. Matthews, III, all of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A., of Greenville, for Respondent.

Alice W. Parham Casey, of Wyche, P.A. of Columbia, for Amicus Curiae, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.

PER CURIAM: We granted certiorari to review the Court of Appeals' decision in Keller v. ING Fin. Partners, Inc., Op. No. 2013-UP-014 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Jan. 9, 2013). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

TOAL, C.J., PLEICONES, BEATTY, KITTREDGE and HEARN, JJ., concur.