EVANS v. STATE

No. 25260.

344 S.C. 60 (2001)

543 S.E.2d 547

Victor EVANS, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Appellants/Respondents, v. The STATE of South Carolina; South Carolina State Retirement System; Retirement System for Judges and Solicitors of the State of South Carolina; Retirement System for Members of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina; South Carolina Police Officers' Retirement System; South Carolina Department of Revenue; and South Carolina Budget and Control Board, Respondents/Appellants.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided March 12, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M.S. Hoefer and Paige J. Gossett, of Willoughby & Hoefer, P.A., and A. Camden Lewis, of Lewis, Babcock & Hawkins, L.L.P., of Columbia, for appellants/respondents.

Vance J. Bettis, of Gignilliat, Savitz & Bettis, L.L.P., for respondents/appellants; Joseph D. Shine, Edwin E. Evans, and Anne Macon Flynn, for Respondent/Appellant South Carolina State Budget and Control Board; Harry T. Cooper, Jr., Ronald W. Urban, and Sarah G. Major, for Respondent/Appellant South Carolina Department of Revenue; Stephen R. Van Camp for Respondents/Appellants South Carolina State Retirement System, Retirement System for Judges and Solicitors of the State of South Carolina, Retirement System for Members of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina and the South Carolina Police Officers' Retirement System, all of Columbia.


BURNETT, Justice:

This case presents cross-appeals from the order of the circuit court denying, in part, and granting, in part, respondents/appellants' motion to dismiss. We reverse.

FACTS

In Davis v. Michigan Dep't of Treasury, 489 U.S. 803, 109 S.Ct. 1500, 103 L.Ed.2d 891 (1989), the United States Supreme Court held the doctrine of intergovernmental immunity...

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