Beverly Glen, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles

In Beverly Glen, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles (1973) 34 Cal.App.3d 117, a nonprofit corporation composed of families residing in an area that would be adversely affected by a proposed development, was held to have standing to sue in a representative capacity; there, as in the instant case, there were no express allegations that the nonprofit corporation was duly authorized to sue or that it brought the action in its representative capacity. The court reviewed the applicable precedents, at pages 120-126, and noted, at page 122, that there had been a "marked accommodation of formerly strict procedural requirements of standing to sue . . . where matters relating to the 'social and economic realities of the present-day organization of society' . . . are concerned."