Oregon v. Legal Services Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Oregon lacked Article III standing to challenge the Restrictions
• characterizing a quasi-sovereign interest as more than simply aggregated private interests and noting that the state would be precluded, under prudential standing doctrine, from asserting the legal rights of third parties
• characterizing a quasi-sovereign interest as more than simply aggregated priváte interests and noting that the state would be precluded,, under prudential standing doctrine, from asserting the legal rights of third parties
• “Plaintiff bears the burden of proof to establish standing ‘with the manner and degree of 27 evidence required at the successive stages of the litigation.’”
• “An objection that a federal court lacks subject matter jurisdiction may 15 be raised at any time.”
• “Generally, a state has been granted standing under the parens patriae doctrine in situations involving the abatement of public nuisances, such as global warming, flooding, or noxious gases.”

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