Patterson v. City of Greenville

¶ 13. I respectfully dissent from the majority’s opinion.

¶ 14. I would reverse and remand this matter to the city council.1 I submit that the city council, and hence the circuit court in affirming the city council’s decision, acted arbitrarily and capriciously in terminating the police chief without first determining factually whether the chiefs use of police vehicles constituted use for an official public law enforcement purpose and whether Vice Mayor Gines’s direct order constituted a lawful order within his authority to issue.2 Vice Mayor Gines lacked authority to direct this order to the…