THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Supreme Court

Maria A. Hollins, as Parent and Guardian ad Litem for Jane Doe, a minor under the age of fourteen years, Petitioner,

v.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Respondent.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Richland County
J. Ernest Kinard, Jr., Circuit Court Judge

Opinion No. 26937
Heard February 16, 2011 - Filed March 7, 2011

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

David E. Massey, Summer C. Tompkins, and Debra Sherman Tedeschi, all of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Stephen G. Morrison, C. Mitchell Brown, and Susan M. Glenn, all of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We granted a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals opinion in Hollins v. Wal-Mart, 381 S.C. 245, 672 S.E.2d 805 (Ct. App. 2008). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE PLEICONES, BEATTY, KITTREDGE, JJ., and Acting Justices James E. Moore and John H. Waller, Jr., concur.