In re Bryson W.

Full title: In the Interest of Bryson W., a Juvenile Under the Age of Seventeen…

Court: STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Court of Appeals

Date published: Jan 8, 2014

Appellate Case No. 2012-212610 (S.C. Ct. App. Jan. 8, 2014)

Opinion

Appellate Case No. 2012-212610 Unpublished Opinion No. 2014-UP-004

01-08-2014

In the Interest of Bryson W., a Juvenile Under the Age of Seventeen, Appellant.

Appellate Defender David Alexander, of Columbia, for Appellant. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Assistant Attorney General John Benjamin Aplin, both of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM

THIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE. IT SHOULD NOT BE

CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING

EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.

Appeal From Greenwood County

Brian M. Gibbons, Family Court Judge

APPEAL DISMISSED

Appellate Defender David Alexander, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Assistant Attorney General John Benjamin Aplin, both of Columbia, for Respondent. PER CURIAM: Dismissed pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following authorities: Byrd v. Irmo High Sch., 321 S.C. 426, 431, 468 S.E.2d 861, 864 (1996) ("This [c]ourt will not pass on moot and academic questions or make an adjudication where there remains no actual controversy."); id. ("'A case becomes moot when judgment, if rendered, will have no practical legal effect upon an existing controversy.'" (quoting Mathis v. S.C. State Highway Dep't, 260 S.C. 344, 346, 195 S.E.2d 713, 715 (1973))); Sloan v. Friends of Hunley, Inc., 369 S.C. 20, 26-27, 630 S.E.2d 474, 478 (2006) (noting even if an issue is moot, the court may address it when the issue is capable of repetition, yet evading review, but adding "the action must be one which truly evade[s] review"). APPEAL DISMISSED.¹

1 We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.

WILLIAMS, THOMAS, and KONDUROS, JJ., concur.