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· 8/6/2015

Duit Construction Company Inc. v. Scott Bennett

Citations

  • 796 F.3d 938
  • 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 13777
  • 2015 WL 4645965

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the plaintiff failed to establish the redressability component of Article III standing because federal courts could not dictate the state agency’s procurement decisions
  • addressing a plaintiff’s standing to bring suit as part of an interlocutory appeal of a district court’s denial of Eleventh Amendment immunity
  • “When the injury alleged is the result of actions by some third party, not the defendant[s], the plaintiff cannot satisfy the causation element of the standing inquiry.” (citation omitted)
  • ordinarily, “an appellate court may not alter a judgment to benefit a nonappealing party”
  • “Under [the Supreme Court’s] unwritten but longstanding [cross-appeal] rule, an appellate court may not alter a judgment to benefit a nonappealing party.” (alterations in original) (quoting Greenlaw v. United States, 554 U.S. 237, 244 (2008))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Riley, Loken, Shepherd

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