Supreme Court of South Carolina

Heather Herron, Natalie Armstrong, Michael Ritz, Julie Freeman, Christine Watts, Alison Dannert, Michael Blease And…

December 19, 2011395 S.C. 461

Summary

The court declined to reconsider its prior arbitration decision under intervening federal precedent because the appellant had not preserved the federal-preemption issue in the South Carolina proceedings. General references to policies favoring arbitration and an earlier, unrelated preemption argument did not sufficiently raise the specific preemption question. The court reinstated its original opinion.