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            <P>COLUMBIA -- John Hardee, one of the state highway commissioners 
            whose appointments were ruled illegal last week by the South 
            Carolina Supreme Court, stopped his appeal and stepped down from the 
            board he has served since 1998, officials announced Friday.
            <P>The justices ruled that Hardee and two other commissioners were 
            appointed illegally because the law does not allow them to succeed 
            themselves.
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            year after his term expired. Another said he considered his service 
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            <P>Hardee, a Columbia outdoor advertising executive, had asked the 
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            <P>Hardee, the son-in-law of Sen. Hugh Leatherman of Florence, 
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