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Mandamus To Review Administrative Action In West Virginia, Ray Jay Davis
Mandamus To Review Administrative Action In West Virginia, Ray Jay Davis
West Virginia Law Review
Limitation by law of governmental action and legal responsibility of officials are ramparts in defense of constitutional democracy. The American people expect all branches of government-executive and legislative, as well as judicial-to protect us against arbitrary official action. Lawyers, however, are primarily interested in judicial restraints and limitations upon officialdom. This article is an examination of the West Virginia law concerning one of the methods used by courts to control administrative officers-the writ of mandamus.
The Doctrine Of Precedent As Applied To Administrative Decisions, Ray Jay Davis
The Doctrine Of Precedent As Applied To Administrative Decisions, Ray Jay Davis
West Virginia Law Review
When the Twentieth Century acceleration of administrative dispensation of justice has come criticism of procedures followed by administrative agencies. Many complaints focus upon procedural differences between administrative and judicial adjudication, considering the latter as the acceptable norm and any deviation therefrom by administrative officials as erroneous. One such objection is that administrative tribunals do not adhere to the Anglo-American doctrine of precedent; that, instead of acting in accord with generalizations gleaned from their previous adjudications, they treat each case as a single, unique instance. Criticism of this sort presupposes that the same values served by judicial adherence to precedent are …