ROANOKE CITY SCHOOL BD. v. TIMES-WORLD CORP.

Record No. 810769.

307 S.E.2d 256 (1983)

ROANOKE CITY SCHOOL BOARD, A Body Corporate, v. TIMES-WORLD CORPORATION, A Virginia Corporation and John J. Chamberlain.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

September 9, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William X. Parsons, Asst. City Atty. (Wilburn C. Dibling, Jr., City Atty., on brief), for appellant.

Daniel S. Brown, Roanoke (Dianne E.H. Wilcox, Hazlegrove, Dickinson, Rea, Smeltzer & Brown, Roanoke, on brief), for appellees.

Before CARRICO, C.J., COCHRAN, POFF, COMPTON, STEPHENSON and THOMAS, JJ., and HARRISON, Retired Justice.


ALBERTIS S. HARRISON, Jr., Retired Justice.

The issue in this case is whether a prearranged telephone conference call in which all members of a school board participated and discussed matters proper for an executive or closed session constituted a "meeting" within the purview of "The Virginia Freedom of Information Act," Code §§ 2.1-340 to -346.1. In a proceeding brought by Times-World Corporation and John J. Chamberlain against the Roanoke City School Board...

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