Meyer v. City of Newport

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an individual who was not a party to a consent judgment may not challenge its validity
• holding that individuals who were not a party to a consent judgment may not challenge the validity of the agreement
• holding that abutting landowners did not suffer injury in fact and thus did not have standing to pursue action seeking declaration that a consent judgment between city and developer regarding the use of a wharf was invalid
• finding that a \necessary predicate to a court's exercise of its jurisdiction under the [UDJA] is an actual justiciable controversy\ which requires a plaintiff with standing to bring suit
• declaring that \[a] court may not assume subject-matter jurisdiction over a declaratory-judgment action when a plaintiff fails to join all those necessary and indispensable parties who have an actual and essential interest that would be affected by the declaration\
• finding no injury in fact where the plaintiffs' status was no different than that of all members of the community as a whole

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).