VIRGINIA SOC. FOR HUMAN LIFE v. CALDWELL

Record No. 972659.

500 S.E.2d 814 (1998)

VIRGINIA SOCIETY FOR HUMAN LIFE, INCORPORATED, et al. v. Donald S. CALDWELL, Attorney for the Commonwealth of Virginia for the City of Roanoke, etc., et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 5, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Bopp, Jr., Terre Haute, IN; Daniel Grey, Acton, MA (John K. Abegg; Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, IN; Swick & Shapiro, Washington, DC, on briefs), for appellants.

A. Ann Berkebile, Assistant Attorney General (Mark L. Earley, Attorney General, on brief), for appellees.

Present: All the Justices.


KOONTZ, Justice.

Pursuant to our Rule 5:42, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit certified a question of Virginia law to this Court which we accepted by order entered January 16, 1998. The question involves the construction of various provisions of the Campaign Finance Disclosure Act (the Act), Code §§ 24.2-900 to -930, and Code § 24.2-1014, a penalty provision applicable to certain activities governed by the Act.

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