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· 7/30/2008

Hodak v. City of St. Peters

Citations

  • 535 F.3d 899
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 16164
  • 2008 WL 2906628

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that third party actually asserts his own rights, no hindrance exists, and third-party standing is improper”
  • stating that a litigant seeking to assert claims on behalf of a third party must actually assert the rights of the third party
  • explaining a party must suffer an “injury in fact” of “an actual or imminent concrete and particularized invasion to a legally protected interest” to have standing
  • stating that standing determinations are reviewed de novo
  • “As a general rule, a plaintiff may only assert his own injury in fact and ‘cannot rest his claim to relief on the legal rights or interests of third parties.’”
  • “As a general rule, a plaintiff may only assert his own injury in fact and ‘cannot rest his claim to relief on the legal rights or interests of third parties.’”

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Judges: Melloy, Gruender, Shepherd

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