South Carolina Covid-19 Private Higher Ed Fund Suit Ruled Moot

A challenge to South Carolina’s constitutional prohibition on using public funds to benefit religious or private educational institutions is moot after the Covid-19 funds once denied has since run out, the Fourth Circuit said Thursday.

Charleston’s Catholic bishop and a group of state higher education institutions sought an injunction allowing them to apply for state grants, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said. But even if the court were to rule in their favor on the merits, “we could not provide meaningful injunctive relief because there are no longer any funds” available, the court ruled in an ...