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· 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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