{"id":7986,"date":"2019-10-29T11:29:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T15:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/?p=7986"},"modified":"2020-04-20T10:22:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T14:22:42","slug":"no-crying-or-lawsuits-in-kickball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/no-crying-or-lawsuits-in-kickball\/","title":{"rendered":"No Crying, Or Lawsuits, in Kickball"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A required element of any sport is competition.\u00a0 There are times, however, that competitiveness can get out of hand, especially in recreational kickball. \u00a0On August 6, the South Carolina teams, \u201cRecreational Hazard\u201d and the \u201cToe Jammers\u201d went toe to toe for a grueling eight innings before the tension rose to an incredible high.\u00a0A disputed call at home plate resulted in a debate between player, Michael Lockliear and umpire, Graylnn Moran Jr.\u00a0 A couple of days later, the umpire received a text message from his supervisor, stating that a third party no longer wanted Moran to officiate games, and was therefore terminated from his position.\u00a0Moran has since filed a lawsuit, claiming slander, conspiracy, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and tortious interference with a contract.<\/p>\n

Moran is suing Lockliear, who happens to be the mayor of Moncks Corner, South Carolina.\u00a0 In the game in August, the pair were arguing over a call made against Lockliear\u2019s son, who was tagged out right before crossing home plate.\u00a0 Lockliear argued with the umpire, stating that his son was safe, and he was only hit after running past the bag.\u00a0 Moran warned Lockliear that he, as the mayor, was representing the town and should calm down.\u00a0 Lockliear allegedly stated that he owned the town<\/a> and threatened Moran\u2019s position in future games.\u00a0 Based on what was said during the altercation, as well as the events leading to the argument, Moran claims Lockliear is the unidentified third party responsible for getting him fired.<\/p>\n

Lockliear has stated that even if his child was not the one whom was called out at home plate, he would have still argued with the umpire.\u00a0He is, however, maintaining his innocence and is adamant that while he is a competitive kickball player, he did not enforce his influence as a member of public office in getting Moran fired.\u00a0Due to the timeline of events, however, it is apparent that the instance on the kickball field was the direct cause of Moran\u2019s termination.\u00a0 Moran can no longer participate as an umpire, a job which earned him $1,200 a season.\u00a0Due to Lockliear\u2019s poor sportsmanship, Moran is moving forward with a lawsuit and is seeking compensation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A required element of any sport is competition.\u00a0 There are times, however, that competitiveness can get out of hand, especially in recreational kickball. \u00a0On August 6, the South Carolina teams,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[2524,426,2678,2680,557,2679,199],"class_list":["post-7986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawsuits","tag-competition","tag-contract","tag-kickball","tag-player","tag-sports-2","tag-umpire","tag-wrongful-termination-2"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8215,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions\/8215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}