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JAKABCIN v. TOWN OF FRONT ROYAL

Record No. 050722.

628 S.E.2d 319 (2006)

271 Va. 660

Joseph JAKABCIN, et al. v. TOWN OF FRONT ROYAL, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 21, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Carter Strother (Krista M. Mathis; R. Scott Pugh, Spotsylvania; William M. Sokol, Fredericksburg; Strother Law Offices; Sokol & Jones, Fredericksburg, on brief), for appellants.

M. Christine Klein, Richmond (John Charles Thomas; James R. Wilson, III; Hunton & Williams, Richmond, on brief), for appellee H.H.C. Richards Family Trust.

No Brief or argument for appellees Town of Front Royal and Wal-Mart Real Estate Business Trust.

Present: HASSELL, C.J., LACY, KEENAN, KOONTZ, KINSER, and LEMONS, JJ., and RUSSELL, Senior Justice.

CHARLES S. RUSSELL, Senior Justice.

In this case of first impression in Virginia, we must determine whether a local governing body may convene and conduct a valid meeting with less than a quorum of its members physically present, when absent members had disqualified themselves from acting pursuant to the State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act, Code §§ 2.2-3100 et seq. (COIA).

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