Sonya Renee v. Arne Duncan

How courts have described this case

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

• holding a plaintiff’s burden to demonstrate redressability is “relatively modest”
• finding causation connection 18 between the promulgation of the federal regulation challenged in the case and the later 19 promulgation of California regulations
• “[W]e have an independent obligation to ensure that a case is not moot within the meaning of Article III.”
• plaintiffs must show that a court decision would cause a “change in legal status” that would “directly redress[] the injury suffered”
• “If an agency has misinterpreted the law, there is Article III standing ‘even though the agency . . . might later, in the exercise of its lawful discretion, reach the same result for a different reason.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).