Meek v. California

How courts have described this case

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• noting that to establish standing, “[a] litigant must show more than the fact that state officials stand ready to perform their general duty to enforce [the] laws[.]”
• noting that \fornication and cohabitation are common forms of conduct in society generally and in the City of Richmond in particular\
• identifying Epperson as belonging to a class of cases where \the chilling effect of a statute is so powerful and the rights it inhibits so important that the mere existence of the statute may warrant judicial intervention\
• “[A] litigant must show more than the fact that state officials stand ready to perform their general duty to enforce laws.”
• unmarried adults who sought to challenge Virginia’s fornication and cohabitation statutes lacked standing because they faced “only the most theoretical threat of prosecution” and their subjective fear of prosecution did not establish an objective threat

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).