Court Opinion

ID: 9515573
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 22:58:02.910475+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:06:30.856872
License: Public Domain

MEIERHENRY, Justice
(concurring in result).
[¶23.] I agree with the analysis that the contract term “certificated personnel” is ambiguous and I concur in the holding that certificated personnel “means a person who holds a teaching certificate from the South Dakota Department of Education.” However, having found the term ambiguous, I would not analyze the outcome under the hypothetical that the term is unambiguous. The term must be one or the other. Having determined the term is ambiguous the analysis need go no further.
[¶ 24.] KONENKAMP and ZINTER, Justices, join this special writing.