Stanton v. Town of Pawleys Island

Toal, Justice:

This is an appeal from the order of the Circuit Court dismissing appellant’s action for failure to exhaust administrative remedies. We affirm.

FACTS

The ground level of appellant’s (“Stanton’s”) beach house at Pawleys Island was virtually destroyed by Hurricane Hugo in September 1989. In November 1989, the building inspector for Pawleys Island refused to issue a building permit to Stanton to rebuild the lower portion of the house.

Stanton filed suit in Federal District Court claiming that the ordinance was constitutionally invalid and requesting the court to mandamus the Town of…