Citation Codes Equivalent Citations citation codes Docket Number 23254 Attorney(S) Robert C. Brown, and J.R. Murphy, both of Brown Woods, Columbia, for petitioners. D. Lester Diggs, Aiken, for respondent. See more information ... Smart Summary Please sign up to generate summary. Alden CHAVOUS, Jr., Indi v. dually and as Guardian Ad Litem for AldenCha Heard June 4, 1990. Decided Aug. 12, 1991. Per Curiam: This case was originally before us on a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Appeals' decision reported at 299 S.C. 398, 385 S.E.2d 206 (Ct.App. 1989). We reversed the Court of Appeals' holding that Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), applies in a civil action 396 S.E.2d 98. Op. No. 23254 (S.C. S.Ct. filed Aug. 6, 1990). The United States Supreme Court subsequently issued its opinion in Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co., 500 U.S. 614, 111 S.Ct. 2077, 114 L.Ed.2d 660 (1991). On writ of certiorari ___ U.S. ___, 111 S.Ct. 2791, 115 L.Ed.2d 966, it remanded this case for reconsideration in light of its holding in Edmonson that the exercise of race-motivated peremptory strikes by a private civil litigant violates Batson. Acceding to the high court's decision in Edmonson, we now consider the only issue remaining in this case: whether the Court of Appeals' holding that the race-neutral explanations for strikes exercised by petitioners against two female black jurors violated Batson because they were merely pretextual. See State v. Oglesby, 298 S.C. 279, 379 S.E.2d 891 (1989). We concur in the Court of Appeals' holding on this issue. Accordingly, the Court of Appeals' decision is now Affirmed.