A. J. Korioth v. Honorable Dolph Briscoe v. City of Farmers Branch, Movant-Appellant

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a state legislator lacks standing to challenge constitutionality of a state statute where he failed to allege that the effectiveness of his vote or any other legislative power he might have had was impeded either by the majority vote or by implementation of the statute
• legislator whose vote was ineffective due to contrary vote of majority of legislators denied standing to challenge implementation of that vote by executive branch
• “Cases are to be decided on the narrowest legal grounds available . . . .”
• “When [a putative intervenor] has other adequate means of asserting its rights, a charge of abuse of discretion in the denial of a motion for permissive intervention would appear to be almost untenable on its face.”
• “Cases are to be decided on the narrowest legal grounds available[.]”

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