Common Cause of Pennsylvania v. Pennsylvania

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a facial attack challenges “whether the allegations on the face of the complaint, taken as true, allege facts sufficient to invoke the jurisdiction of the district court”
• rejecting Pennsylvania legislators’ standing to challenge “increased salaries for state legislators” and others pursuant to “the General Assembly’s enactment of Act 44 [of 2005] in a sleight-of-hand manner during the dead of night”
• “Because we decide this appeal 5 on the basis of standing, we need not address whether Plaintiffs’ claims are moot”
• discussing the elements of Article III standing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).