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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

Jamesetta Washington, as Guardian ad Litem for Jayden W., a minor, Petitioner,

v.

Edmund Rhett, Jr., M.D., Low Country Obstetrics and Gynecology, P.A.; Tenet South Carolina, Inc., d/b/a East Cooper Regional Medical Center, Defendants,

Of whom Edmund Rhett, Jr., M.D. is the Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2014-000831

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal From Charleston County J. Michael Baxley, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2015-MO-039 Heard June 16, 2015 – Filed June 24, 2015

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Edward L. Graham and John Layton Ruffin, both of Graham Law Firm, P.A., of Florence, for Petitioner. Robert H. Hood and Mary Agnes Hood Craig, both of Charleston; Deborah Harrison Sheffield, of Columbia, all of Hood Law Firm, L.L.C., for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted certiorari to review the Court of Appeals' decision in Washington v. Rhett, Op. No. 2014-UP-055 (S.C. Ct. App. filed Feb. 5, 2014). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

PLEICONES, Acting Chief Justice, BEATTY, KITTREDGE, HEARN, JJ., and Acting Justice James E. Moore, concur.