State Ex Rel. Medlock v. South Carolina Coastal Council

Finney, Justice:

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court approving a decision by the South Carolina Coastal Council (Coastal Council) granting C. E. Graham Reeves a permit to impound six hundred sixty (660) acres of marshland at An-nandale Plantation (Annandale) in the Santee River Delta area of Georgetown County. We reverse.

The appeal was initiated by the appellant, the South Carolina Attorney General, on behalf of the State of South Carolina. The appellants, League of Women Voters of Charleston County, and the respondent C. E. Graham Reeves intervened and the cases were…