Focus on the Family v. Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the traceability inquiry is “concerned with something less than the concept of proximate cause” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• recognizing that the court need not resolve indispensability under Rule 19(b) when an absent entity “readily can be made a party to [the] action”
• recognizing that the traceability inquiry is “concerned with something less than the concept of proximate cause” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• finding that a party was necessary when “complete relief cannot be afforded in Eller’s absence, as PSTA cannot require the running of a particular advertisement on its bus shelters”
• finding that a party was necessary when “complete relief cannot be afforded in Eller’s absence, as PSTA cannot require the running of a particular advertisement on its bus shelters”
• finding that a nonparty was required when complete relief could not be afforded in the nonparty’s absence, as the defendant could not require the relief requested without the nonparty’s compliance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).