State Judge Schedules Hearing for February 27

In an email sent late Friday, February 14, 2020, South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Edgar Dickson scheduled a hearing for Thursday, February 27, at 10 am in the Orangeburg County Courthouse in Orangeburg, SC, to hear The Episcopal Church in South Carolina’s (TECSC) Petition for Execution; Motion to Appoint a Special Master; and Petition for an Accounting. These motions were filed by TECSC (also known as the Diocese of South Carolina) following the South Carolina Supreme Court’s August 2017 majority decision to return the diocesan property and 29 parishes to the Episcopal parties. That decision was remitted to Judge Dickson in November of 2017 to be executed.  

Links to TECSC’s motions and supporting memoranda to be heard later this month are as follows:

• The Amended Petition for Execution and Further Relief on Declaratory Judgments of the SC Supreme Court and for the Appointment of a Special Master was filed on May 16, 2018. A Memorandum of Law in support of this petition was filed on September 24, 2018.
• The Petition for an Accounting was filed on July 11, 2018. A Memorandum of Law in Support of the Petition for an Accounting was filed on September 24, 2018.
• An Omnibus Reply Brief to Plaintiff’s Opposition Briefs to Defendants’ Petition for Enforcement, Petition for an Accounting, and Motion to Dismiss the Betterment Action was filed on October 15, 2018.