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Court Rejects Board Notice Sent by E-Mail (What's in Your Bylaws?)  


Author:  Staff Editors.


Source: Volume 10, Number 01, November/December 2010 , pp.13-14(2)




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Abstract: 

It seems so twentieth century to think that in this modern electronic age an organization's mandatory notices to board members must be sent by mail and not by e-mail, but that’s what a Texas court recently held. The case was Thomas Swonke and Christopher Goodrich v. First Colony Community Services Association, Inc. (Case No. 14-09-00019-CV (Tex. Ct. App.—14th Dist. Houston, June 15, 2010)). The court sent the matter on to trial for determination of thefacts, noting that the bylaws contained two provisions dealing with notices for meetings.

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