Costopoulos v. Thornburgh

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that trial judge must pass on questions presented in accordance with established procedure rather than his or her personal estimate of highly specialized situation
• concluding that trial judge must pass on questions presented in accordance with established procedure rather than his or her personal estimate of highly specialized situation
• concluding that because the proposed intervenor “lack[ed] standing to advance the petition for review, he ha[d] no legally enforceable interest to assert as an intervenor”
• finding that, in a standing inquiry, “[C]onsideration must be given to other factors such as, for example, the appropriateness of judicial relief, the availability of redress through other channels, or the existence of other persons better situated to assert the claim.”
• granting taxpayers standing to challenge government action where no one is better situated to challenge that action and it will otherwise evade judicial review
• granting taxpayers standing to challenge government action where no one is better situated to challenge that action and it will otherwise evade judicial review

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