Court Opinion

ID: 8182679
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 22:59:19.518358+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:40:17.179131
License: Public Domain

BENJAMIN, J.,
concurring, in part, and dissenting, in part:
I concur with the majority opinion to the extent that it grants the writ of prohibition on the standing issue. The circuit court failed to give effect to the mandate of this Court in Affiliated Construction Trades Foundation v. West Virginia Department of Transportation, 227 W.Va. 653, 713 S.E.2d 809 (2011) (“ACT I”).
I dissent, in part, for the same reason that I dissented in ACT I. I do not believe that the doctrine of representative standing is a sound and legally justified doctrine. Nevertheless, ACT I is the controlling law in the instant case and the circuit court was legally bound to follow it on remand. The circuit court’s failure to do so constitutes substantial, clear cut legal error. Therefore, though I continue to disapprove of the doctrine of representative standing, ACT I is precedential unless and until it is overruled.