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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

South Carolina Department of Social Services, Respondent,

v.

Mattie Walls, Carley Jason Walls, Dwayne Anderson, and Barbara Anderson, Defendants,

Of whom Mattie Walls is the Petitioner.

In the interest of a minor under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2017-000477

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS ______________ Appeal From Laurens County The Honorable Joseph C. Smithdeal, Family Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2017-MO-019 Heard October 18, 2017 – Filed October 25, 2017

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Julius Holman Hines and Tara C. Sullivan, both of K&L Gates LLP, of Charleston, and Edward S. McCallum, III, of Law Offices of Edward S. McCallum, III, of Greenwood, for Petitioner.

Scarlet Bell Moore, of Greenville, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted Mattie Walls' petition for a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in South Carolina Department of Social Services v. Mattie Walls, No. 2016-UP-483 (S.C. Ct. App. Nov. 16, 2016). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.1

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

BEATTY, C.J., KITTREDGE, HEARN, FEW and JAMES, JJ., concur.

1 Although we dismiss certiorari as improvidently granted, we note that we have reviewed the record de novo and find the grounds for terminating Petitioner's parental rights are supported by clear and convincing evidence.