D.C. Circuit· 2/8/2005

Seegars, Sandra v. Ashcroft, John

Citations

396 F.3d 1248
364 U.S. App. D.C. 512
2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 1965

How courts have described this case

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articulating the “tension between Navegar and [the D.C. Circuit’s] cases upholding preenforcement review of First Amendment challenges to criminal statutes”
applying Navegar because it 7 was “the only circuit case dealing with a non-First Amendment preenforcement challenge to a criminal statute that ha[d] not reached the court through agency proceedings”
requiring a “credible statement . . . 4 For the purposes of this analysis the Court assumes, but need not decide, that pre- enforcement standing is also available for policies and other Executive actions (in addition to statutes
finding it significant that “plaintiffs allege[d] no prior threats against them”
“[I]njuries that are shared and generalized—such as the right to have the government act in accordance with the law—are not sufficient to support standing[.]”
state’s general interest in enforcing its gun laws was insufficient to confer standing on plaintiffs

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Judges: Sentelle, Tatel, Williams

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