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· 6/8/2012

NB Ex Rel. Peacock v. District of Columbia

Citations

  • 401 U.S. App. D.C. 184
  • 682 F.3d 77
  • 2012 WL 2053659
  • 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 11606

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that a plaintiff who had alleged that he needs two inhalers per month “is virtually certain” to engage in the conduct in the future that would subject him to injury
  • noting that “at the pleadings stage, ‘the burden imposed’ on plaintiffs to establish standing ‘is not ‘onerous’”
  • explaining that a court assessing standing assumes that the plaintiff is right on the merits
  • explaining that a “realistic danger” of future harm requires “a likelihood of injury that rises above the level of unadorned speculation” (cleaned up)
  • noting that a plaintiff suffered an injury when he was forced to resort to a different form of payment when he was improperly denied Medicaid coverage
  • noting that “District of. Columbia law imposes’ the same requirements” as federal law

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Judges: Tatel, Kavanaugh, Ginsburg

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