SC SUPREME COURT GRANTS PARTIAL REMITTITUR

The South Carolina Supreme Court today issued an Order granting the Episcopal Church's motion for a partial remittitur. The Clerk of the SCSC sent the official Partial Remittitur today to the Clerk of the circuit court, in St. George.

Find the Order HERE .

The Church lawyers had asked the court to send a remit to the circuit court concerning the six parishes, among the fourteen to be returned to TEC, that did not contest the April 20, 2022 SCSC decision. The court has now agreed, and has included Christ Church, of Mt. Pleasant, since the court has denied their petition for rehearing outright. The remit order covers:

---St. Bartholomew's, Hartsville

---St. John's, Johns Island, Charleston

---St. David's, Cheraw

---St. Matthew's, Ft. Motte

---Holy Trinity, Charleston

---St. James, James Island, Charleston

---Christ Church, Mt. Pleasant

Today's Order also includes disposition of the 15 parishes that the April 20, 2022 SCSC decision declared to own their local properties.

Now that the circuit court has received the official Remittitur from the SCSC, it can begin ordering the transfer of the deeds of the seven parishes in question to the Episcopal Church side. We know that St. John's, of Johns Island, is waiting on the Remittitur before it turns over that property to the Episcopal diocese. One may expect the others to follow soon.