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Held that state taxpayers do not have standing to challenge to state tax laws in federal court. 9–0 Massachusetts v. EPA: 2007: States have standing to sue the EPA to enforce their views of federal law, in this case, the view that carbon dioxide was an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act. Cited Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Co. as precedent ...
A hearing about competency to stand trial is required under the due process clause of the Constitution of the United States. [2] BOR, 14th 1972 Jackson v. Indiana: Criminal defendants who have been found incompetent to stand trial are not permitted to be held indefinitely.
In law, standing or locus standi is a condition that a party seeking a legal remedy must show they have, by demonstrating to the court, sufficient connection to and harm from the law or action challenged to support that party's participation in the case. A party has standing in the following situations:
While the court’s holding was narrow and limited to uncommon situations where the note and mortgage are separated, it is possible that borrower-defendants may seek to rely on the decision to ...
Article III standing requires an injury that is "concrete, particularized and actual or imminent; fairly traceable to the challenged action and redressable by a favorable ruling." [7] Generally, the clause is taken to mean that a vague, broad injury is not grounds for a federal lawsuit. Relevant cases: Lujan v.
A defendant may recover from a mental illness or disability, and a court may require a defendant to undergo treatment in an effort to render him competent to stand trial. For example, in 1989, Kenneth L. Curtis of Stratford, Connecticut was found mentally incompetent to stand trial following the murder of his estranged girlfriend. But years ...
The form of standing allows for organizations and associations to represent their members, agents to represent their principals, states to represent their citizens, assignees to prosecute their assigned claims, and finally, in the context of First Amendment overbreadth challenges, the pursuit of claims involving the rights of potentially ...
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