· 10/11/2023
State of Iowa v. Denise Susanna O'Brien
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- holding that speculative theory of possible injury insufficient to establish injury in fact under Article III's case or controversy requirement
- holding that while the risk of future injury may be founded on a likely and credible chain of events, the injury must be “certainly impending.”
- holding that speculative theory of possible injury insufficient to establish injury in fact under Article Ill’s case or controversy requirement
- concluding that “[i]t is just not possible for a litigant to prove in advance that the judicial system will lead to any particular result in his case”
- holding that the petitioner lacked standing to challenge the death sentence of another prisoner, even though he claimed Arkansas had a system of “comparative review in death penalty cases”
- holding that a third party does not have \standing to challenge the validity of a death sentence imposed on a capital defendant who has elected to forgo his right of appeal\
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