EARLEY v. LANDSIDLE

Record No. 981552.

514 S.E.2d 153 (1999)

257 Va. 365

Mark L. EARLEY, Attorney General of Virginia v. William E. LANDSIDLE, Comptroller of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

February 26, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis S. Ferguson, Deputy Attorney General (Mark L. Earley, Attorney General; Randolph A. Beales, Chief Deputy Attorney General; James Hopper, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Gregory E. Lucyk, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Raymond L. Doggett, Jr., Assistant Attorney General; Richard S. Schweiker, Jr., Assistant Attorney General; Barbara Vann, Assistant Attorney General, on brief), for petitioner.

William G. Broaddus (McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, on brief), Richmond, for respondent.

Daniel R. Ortiz, Charlottesville (R. Claire Guthrie; E.M. Miller, Jr., Richmond, on brief), for Bruce F. Jamerson, Clerk, Virginia House of Delegates and Susan Clarke Schaar, Clerk, Senate of Virginia.

Present: All the Justices.


KEENAN, Justice.

This is an original petition for a writ of mandamus brought by the Attorney General of Virginia, Mark L. Earley, under the provisions of Code § 8.01-653. The issue before us is whether to grant a motion to dismiss the Attorney General's motion to join as parties Bruce F. Jamerson, Clerk, Virginia House of Delegates, and Susan Clarke Schaar, Clerk, Senate of Virginia (the Clerks). The Clerks assert in their motion to dismiss, among other things...

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