American Legal Foundation v. Federal Communications Commission and the United States of America, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., Intervenors

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “media watchdog” organization that purported to act on behalf of television viewers lacked associational standing because the viewers did not select leadership, guide activities, or finance activities
• observing that an injury-in-fact requires “more than allegations of damage to an interest in ‘seeing’ the law obeyed or a social goal furthered”
• observing that an injury-in-fact requires “more than allegations of damage to an interest in ‘seeing’ the law obeyed or a social goal furthered”
• requiring “more than allegations of damage to an interest in ‘seeing’ the law obeyed or a social goal furthered” to establish an injury in fact
• denying assoeiational standing because the court could not “conclude, as could the Hunt Court, that the organization before [it] is the functional equivalent of a traditional membership organization”
• dismissing petition to review FCC order for lack of standing because court was “unable to discern” how non-enforcement of FCC rule caused harm to “any standing simply by asserting a role as public ombudsman”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).