S.C. Coastal Conservation League v. South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control

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• holding that the Appellate Panel, not OCRM staff, is normally entitled to deference in interpreting its own regulations “unless there is a compelling reason to differ”
• holding that the Appellate Panel, not OCRM staff, is normally entitled to deference in interpreting its own regulations \unless there is a compelling reason to differ\
• holding the circuit court should have deferred to the Panel’s decision because “there was no compelling reason to overrule the Panel’s decision that the [regulation] governed”
• holding an unappealed ruling, whether correct or not, is the law of the case
• noting there is a substantial evidence standard of review from the decision of the ALC
• stating a reviewing court shall not substitute its judgment for that of the agency as to the weight of the evidence on questions of fact, but may remand the matter to the agency for a determination of the issue

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