Thompson v. South Carolina Commission on Alcohol & Drug Abuse

We are called upon in the original jurisdiction of the court in this declaratory judgment action to determine the constitutional validity of Act No. 1213 of the Acts of the General Assembly for 1974, the Uniform Alcohol and Intoxication Treatment Act (the Act).

*467The plaintiffs are the Commanding Officer of the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the Director of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, and the President of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Officers’ Association. The action is brought in both an individual capacity and an official capacity, representing generally peace officers…