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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 2:41 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] The WA lawsuit
To: Researchers <researchers@cs.washington.edu>, Staff <cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>, “cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu” <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>
From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 2:41 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] The WA lawsuit
To: Researchers <researchers@cs.washington.edu>, Staff <cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>, “cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu” <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>
It appears that the fact that UW and WSU were part of the WA Attorney General’s lawsuit is key to the state having standing to pursue the case. (One way to try to make a case go away is to argue that the party that brought the case isn’t really involved in the issue – won’t suffer any direct harm – and thus did not have “standing” to bring the case.)
From the NY Times this morning:
“But the case did not seem likely to stall on the threshold issue of standing. Judge Canby appeared to indicate that the harm to state universities was enough to establish standing.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/