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Supreme Court· 12/10/2020

Carney v. Adams

Citations

  • 592 U.S. 53
  • 141 S. Ct. 493
  • 208 L. Ed. 2d 305

How courts have described this case

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

  • recognizing that Article III requires “a genuine, live dispute between adverse parties . . .”
  • holding that a plaintiff lacked standing to challenge a status-based eligibility requirement for state judgeships where the plaintiff had not shown he was “able and ready” to apply
  • holding that job applicants alleging discrimination need not submit application that would obviously be futile in order to establish injury so long as they are ready and able to apply
  • noting that the plaintiff “bears the burden of establishing standing as of the time he brought this lawsuit and maintaining it thereafter”
  • explaining that a plaintiff “must be injured . . . in a way that concretely impacts [their] own protected legal interests”
  • explaining that “a plaintiff cannot establish standing by asserting an abstract ‘general interest common to all members of the public’”

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Judges: Stephen Breyer

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