Opinion
2018-UP-355
08-15-2018
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
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,
THIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE. IT SHOULD NOT BE CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.
Submitted April 2, 2018
Appeal From Richland County DeAndrea G. Benjamin, Circuit Court Judge
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).
We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.
LOCKEMY, C. J, and WILLIAMS and KONDUROS, JJ, concur