THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

Tynaysha Horton, Petitioner, v. City of Columbia, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2014-001070

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal From Richland County Alison Renee Lee, Circuit Court Judge

Opinion No. 27540 Heard June 17, 2015 – Filed July 1, 2015

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

John S. Nichols and Blake Alexander Hewitt, both of Bluestein Nichols Thompson & Delgado, LLC, James E.

Smith, Jr. and Dylan W. Goff, both of James E. Smith, Jr., P.A., all of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Dana M. Thye, of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted certiorari to review the court of appeals' opinion in Horton v. City of Columbia, 408 S.C. 27, 757 S.E.2d 537 (2014). We now dismiss the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted and further direct the court of appeals to depublish its opinion and assign the matter an unpublished opinion number. The above opinion shall no longer have any precedential effect.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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