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Washington Law Review

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1960

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Standing Requirements For Obtaining Review Of Governmental Action In Washington, Cornelius J. Peck Sep 1960

Standing Requirements For Obtaining Review Of Governmental Action In Washington, Cornelius J. Peck

Washington Law Review

A discussion of the requirements for obtaining review of governmental action might quickly degenerate into a sterile exercise in classification and distinction of the various situations in which challenges to governmental action were permitted or denied. The situations in which a person's interests, privileges, or rights have been sufficiently involved to confer upon him the standing to obtain review are many and varied. Certainly the Washington cases, which draw distinctions, later to be repudiated or ignored, between state action and municipal action and between expenditure of funds and control of property, as well as the various pertinent statutory provisions, offer …


Some Observations On The Law And The Nature Of The Judicial Process, Robert C. Finley Mar 1960

Some Observations On The Law And The Nature Of The Judicial Process, Robert C. Finley

Washington Law Review

My purpose in mentioning some of these developments is to point out and to emphasize that the most constructive changes have occurred (1) in the field of procedural law, and (2) in judicial administration. The latter term of course largely refers to methods or mechanics for expediting and handling the business of the courts. The one significant area wherein we have lagged the most is in the field of substantive law evaluation, revision, and improvement.