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CRUCE v. BERKELEY CTY SCHOOL DIST.

Opinion No. 5854.

435 S.C. 7 (2021)

Jeffrey Lance CRUCE, Respondent, v. BERKELEY COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Filed September 1, 2021.

Rehearing Denied December 2, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Brandon Gaskins , of Moore & Van Allen, PLLC, and Joshua Steven Whitley , of Smyth Whitley, LLC, both of Charleston; Andrew F. Lindemann , of Lindemann & Davis, P.A., and Richard J. Morgan , of Burr & Forman LLP, both of Columbia, all for Appellant.

Lucy Clark Sanders and Nancy Bloodgood , both of Bloodgood & Sanders, LLC, of Mount Pleasant, for Respondent.

Berkeley County School District (the District) appeals the circuit court's denial of its motions for a directed verdict and a judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV) on Jeffrey Lance Cruce's defamation cause of action. The District contends it had absolute sovereign immunity because Cruce qualified as either a public official or...

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