Court Opinion

ID: 9883476
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-10-06 01:43:23.470625+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:48:23.657076
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Justice PLEICONES
concurring.
I agree with the majority that the trial court erred in denying CSX’s motion for a change of venue pursuant to S.C.Code Ann. § 15-7-30 (1976). Having found this statute controls, I would not reach the other venue issues. I therefore join Part I A of the majority, but decline to join Part I B.
I also join the majority’s decision in Part II affirming the trial court’s denial of CSX’s JNOV motion as it related to the FELA claim and reversing as to the LIA claim. Therefore, I find it unnecessary to reach CSX’s curious preemption argument as to the LIA cause of action. Moreover, like the LIA claim, the FELA claim was brought pursuant to a federal act, and does not require us to decide whether these statutes preempt a state law claim. I therefore decline to join Part III. While I join the majority’s disposition of the evidentiary issues in Parts IV and V, I do so with the understanding that some of these evidentiary objections may be renewed at the next trial.
For the reasons given above, I concur in the majority’s decision to remand the FELA claim for a new trial.18

. In my view, the case must be remanded to Hampton County, without prejudice to CSX’s right to renew its motion to change venue. See State v. Hunter, 82 S.C. 153, 63 S.E. 685 (1909) (remittitur returned to county where appeal from venue order originated).