· 2/23/1971
Boyle v. Landry
Citations
- 401 U.S. 77
- 91 S. Ct. 758
- 27 L. Ed. 2d 696
- 1971 U.S. LEXIS 84
How courts have described this case
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- finding that plaintiffs who had neither been prosecuted nor specifically threatened with prosecution did not have standing
- finding that plaintiffs who had neither been prosecuted nor specifically threatened with prosecution did not have standing
- reversing federal district court injunction enjoining enforcement of state statute on grounds that federal plaintiffs had failed to demonstrate irreparable injury arising from the statute
- reversing federal district court injunction enjoining enforcement of state statute on grounds that federal plaintiffs had failed to demonstrate irreparable injury arising from the statute
- rejecting the plaintiffs’ standing to sue where no threats of or actual prosecutions under challenged statutes could be shown.
- standing to challenge state statutes denied where there was no showing of threatened or actual prosecution under challenged statute
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Judges: Black, Blace, Burger, Harlan, Stewart, Blackmun, Brennan, White, Marshall, Douglas
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