American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals v. Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus

How courts have described this case

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• finding standing where plaintiff would return to the environment where he would detect the effects of the challenged activity on animals he loved and be injured by such observation
• “Given the posture of the case, we must assume the truth of the claims.”
• “At the pleading stage, general factual allegations of injury resulting from the defendant’s conduct may suffice because courts assume plaintiffs can back up their general claims with specifics at trial.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[A]n injury in fact can be found when a defendant adversely affects a plaintiff’s enjoyment of flora or fauna, which the plaintiff wishes to enjoy again upon the cessation of the defendant’s actions.”
• “Rider’s allegations are sufficient to withstand a motion to dismiss for lack of standing. We therefore do not decide whether the other plaintiffs have standing because each of them is seeking relief identical to what Rider seeks.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).