Murphy v. Richland-Lexington School District No. 5

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EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

Kim Murphy, Appellant,

v.

Richland-Lexington School District No. 5 by and through
its Board of Trustees by and through Counsel to the
Board of Trustees, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2016-000211

Appeal From Richland County
DeAndrea G. Benjamin, Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2018-UP-355
Submitted April 2, 2018 – Filed August 15, 2018

DISMISSED

J. Lewis Cromer, James Paul Porter, and Elizabeth Marie
Bowen, all of Cromer Babb Porter & Hicks, LLC, of
Columbia, for Appellant.

John Marshall Reagle, of Columbia, for Respondent,

PER CURIAM: Kim Murphy appeals the circuit court's order affirming her
removal from the Board of Trustees for Richland-Lexington School District No. 5
(the Board). We dismiss this appeal as moot pursuant to Rule 220(b) and the
following authorities: Curtis v. State, 345 S.C. 557, 567, 549 S.E.2d 591, 596
(2001) ("A case becomes moot when judgment, if rendered, will have no practical
legal effect upon [the] existing controversy. This is true when some event occurs
making it impossible for [the] reviewing [c]ourt to grant effectual relief." (quoting
Mathis v. S.C. State Highway Dep't, 260 S.C. 344, 346, 195 S.E.2d 713, 715
(1973))); Gantt v. Selph, 423 S.C. 333, ___, 814 S.E.2d 523, 528 (2018) (affirming
the circuit court's ruling that Murphy is not qualified to be a candidate for election
to a Richland County seat on the Board because evidence in the record supported
the finding she is a resident of Lexington County).

DISMISSED.1

LOCKEMY, C.J., and WILLIAMS and KONDUROS, JJ., concur.

1
We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.