State Ex Rel. McLeod v. Yonce

This action, in the original jurisdiction of the court, was brought by the Attorney General on behalf of the State under the Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act, § 15-53-10, et seq., Code of Laws of South Carolina (1976) as amended to determine the constitutionality of Section 2 of Act 167 of the 1979 Acts of the South Carolina General Assembly. That section provides for the appointment, by the Chief Justice, of a circuit court judge to preside over certain contested public utility rate cases tried by the South Carolina Public Service Commission. The prayer for relief asked that the section be…