THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

Richard Stogsdill, Petitioner, v. South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2014-002513

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from the Administrative Law Court Carolyn C. Matthews, Administrative Law Judge

Opinion No. 27601 Heard November 17, 2015 – Filed January 20, 2016

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Patricia Logan Harrison, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Richard G. Hepfer, of Columbia, for Respondent.

Anna Maria Darwin and Sarah Garland St. Onge, both of Columbia, for Amicus Curiae Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities, Inc.; Andrew J. Atkins, of Columbia, for Amicus Curiae South Carolina Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys; and Stephen Suggs, of Columbia, for Amicus Curiae South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center.

PER CURIAM: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in Stogsdill v. South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, 410 S.C. 273, 763 S.E.2d 638 (Ct. App. 2014). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

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