Opinion
2014-UP-004
01-08-2014
In the Interest of Bryson W., a Juvenile Under the Age of Seventeen, Appellant. Appellate Case No. 2012-212610
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.
UNPUBLISHED OPINION
Submitted November 1, 2013
Appeal From Greenwood County Brian M. Gibbons, Family Court Judge
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").
We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.
WILLIAMS, THOMAS, and KONDUROS, JJ., concur.