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Corporation Is Not Successor
To Unincorporated Association

Court says attempt to incorporate association is invalid
without adequate notice, unanimous consent of members

A nonprofit corporation approved at a meeting of an unincorporated association does not succeed to the interests of the association when the members have not received adequate notice of the proposal and have not approved it unanimously, a federal District Court in Virginia has held.  (Bedford Genealogical Society, Inc. v. Bedford Museum and Genealogical Library, W.D. VA, No. 6-09-cv-00060, 5/21/10.)

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