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BENDERSON DEVELOPMENT CO. v. SCIORTINO

Record No. 850938.

372 S.E.2d 751 (1988)

BENDERSON DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, INC., et al. v. Paul A. SCIORTINO, etc.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

September 23, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. Michael Greenberger (Becky Powhatan, Scott R. McIntosh, Shea & Gardner, Willcox & Savage, P.C., on briefs), for appellants.

Eugene Murphy, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

International Council of Shopping Centers (Edward C. Maeder, John R. Keys, Jr., Winston & Strawn, on brief), amicus curiae for appellants.

Retail Merchants Ass'n of Tidewater, Virginia, Inc. (David F. Peters, Mary Jo Leugers, Hunton & Williams, on brief), amicus curiae for appellees.

Present All the Justices.

RUSSELL, Justice.

This appeal challenges Virginia's Sunday-closing laws. The challenge is based upon the prohibitions against "special laws" contained in the Constitution of Virginia. Eight corporations doing business in Virginia Beach (six retail merchants and two real estate development companies operating shopping centers) (the plaintiffs),1 filed a motion for declaratory judgment in the...

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