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Citizen Participation In The Regulation Of Surface Mining, Joshua I. Barrett Jun 1979

Citizen Participation In The Regulation Of Surface Mining, Joshua I. Barrett

West Virginia Law Review

Public participation in the regulatory process has become increasingly common in recent years, especially in environmental matters. The West Virginia Surface Mining and Reclamation Act contains a number of devices by which citizens can present their views concerning proposed strip mines and can compel enforcement of the Act's provisions. The federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, by allowing citizen access to almost every phase of the regulatory process, opens even more avenues for participation than are currently available in West Virginia and other states. An invitation to citizens to take part in these regulatory and enforcement activities …


Survey Of Developments In West Virginia Law: 1978 Feb 1979

Survey Of Developments In West Virginia Law: 1978

West Virginia Law Review

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The Judicialization Of Federal Administrative Law Judges: Implications For Policymaking, Gerald M. Pops Feb 1979

The Judicialization Of Federal Administrative Law Judges: Implications For Policymaking, Gerald M. Pops

West Virginia Law Review

Students of the American federal administrative legal process have long debated the question of whether those persons charged with the responsibility for developing and conducting the formal hearing process and for making "initial decisions" in agency adjudication should act more like judges or more like administrators. Advocates of the judicial model of behavior seek to inject into the administrative process certain values inherent and traditional in Anglo-American courts. These values particularly, although not exclusively, include the protection of the personal, property and procedural rights of private citizens which have been developed by judges acting in their traditional capacities as makers …