National Maritime Union of America, Afl-Cio v. Commander, Military Sealift Command

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• ruling that “the mere fact of conflicting interests among members of an association does not of itself defeat the association’s standing”
• noting that courts generally defer to an 7 The Director relies on Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma v. Lujan, 728 F. Supp. 791 (D.D.C. 1990
• conflicting interests among members will not defeat union's standing to urge the interests of some members in litigation
• “[R]eference to the bidder’s distinctive legal right [to fair consideration] is essential to article III standing in a procurement challenge.”
• \Most of the cases ... invoke [the disappointed bidder's] right as a means to resolve the zone-of-interest question ... [b]ut we believe that [it] ... is essential to article III standing in a procurement challenge.\
• “[Ijnjury to a bidder’s right to a fair procurement is obviously an injury both traceable to the alleged illegality in a procurement and redressable by any remedy that eliminates the alleged illegality.”

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