Any person may commence an action either by mandamus or injunction for the purpose of stopping violations or preventing threatened violations of this chapter by members of a governing body.
RCW 42.30.130
Violations—Mandamus or injunction.
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case Loeffelholz v. CITIZENS FOR LEADERS (2004)
Most recently applied in R.L. McFarland v. Gregory A. Tompkins (April 2025)
1971 ex.s. c 250 s 13.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.