The Supreme Court - October 1958 Term

The Supreme Court, reads a famous passage by Bryce, feels the touch of public opinion. Opinion is stronger in America than anywhere else in the world, and judges are only men. To yield a little may be prudent, for the tree that cannot bend to the blast may be broken. The history of the highest Court bears constant witness to the truth of Bryce\u27s statement. Supreme Court action which has moved too far in one direction has always ultimately provoked an equivalent reaction in the opposite direction. Even an institution as august as the high tribunal cannot escape the law of the pendulum

The Model State Administrative Procedure Act

Senate Bill 180, in its original form, incorporated the substance of the first seven sections of the Model State Administrative Procedure Act. It is this which makes specially relevant an article devoted to the Model Act in a symposium devoted to Washington administrative law. If, as appears likely, a bill similar to S.B. 180 should become law in the near future, it is important to have available in this state a convenient analysis of the parent legislation from which the Washington law will, in large part, have been derived