§23.2.8 Strategic and Practical Considerations

• Jurisdiction: Washington

§23.2.8STRATEGIC AND PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS

CR 23.2 provides just one of three methods of involving an unincorporated association in a suit. As evidenced by the lack of case law interpreting the rule, litigants infrequently use CR 23.2, often opting instead to rely on Washington case law allowing unincorporated associations to sue and be sued as legal entities in their own right. The availability of the procedural device could prove useful in certain situations, however. For example, litigants...