Coughlin v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that, if a subset of legislators was barred from voting, members of the subset “could claim a personal injury”
• explaining that an individual legislator may represent the body as an institution upon authorization
• recognizing the injury in Coleman as an injury suffered in the legislators' official capacity
• noting that “individual legislators may not support standing by alleging only an institutional injury”
• “Describing the injury in Coleman as ‘institutional’ is difficult to square with the definition of an institutional injury provided in Arizona.”
• defining an “institutional injury” as one that “impacts all members . . . in equal measure”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).