Frances Wood Wilson Foundation, Inc. v. Bell

How courts have described this case

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

• declaratory relief not available where there was no prosecution or threat of prosecution under challenged local law
• no standing to challenge constitutionality of local law where there had been no prosecution or threat of prosecution
• no standing to challenge constitutionality of local law where there had been no prosecution or threat of prosecution
• “[U]ntil plaintiff can show either that the statute in question has been invoked against it, or that there is a direct threat by the authorities to invoke it, it has no standing to come into court and have the court declare the statute invalid.”
• “[U]ntil plaintiff can show either that the statute in question has been invoked against it, or that there is a direct threat by the authorities to invoke it, it has no standing to come into court and have the court declare the statute invalid.”
• “If he is not within the class of those persons whose rights are adversely affected by the statute, or if he has suffered no harm or stands to suffer no harm by the mere presence of the statute upon the books, he has no standing to attack its validity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).