Club Italia Soccer & Sports Organization, Inc., a Michigan Non-Profit Corporation v. Charter Township of Shelby, Michigan

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• holding that the Equal Protection Clause protects against state action that treats one person “disparately as compared to similarly situated persons”
• observing that the plaintiff had not alleged any animus or class-based motive in its claim of discriminatory treatment
• noting that “[t]his Court has explicitly held that” certain types of economic injuries are sufficient to confer standing
• finding that the district court improperly conflated standing and the merits of the plaintiff’s due process claim when it held that the plaintiff lacked standing because it lacked a protected property interest
• distinguishing between injury to interests within zone of interests protected by equal protection necessary to confer standing from injury necessary to prevail on merits of equal protection claim
• also citing several Supreme Court cases and Sixth Circuit cases in support of application of zone-of-interests test outside APA

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