Swann v. Secretary of Georgia

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an “alleged injury [i]s not fairly traceable” to a challenged provision if the claimant “would not have received” the benefit he sought “regardless” of whether his claim had merit
• concluding that the plaintiff’s failure to provide the address of the jail on his absentee-ballot application independently caused him his alleged injury, which would have happened regardless of the application of the challenged statute
• explaining that a plaintiff lacks standing when he “independently caused his own injury”
• “[S]tanding is a threshold jurisdictional question which must be addressed prior to and independent of the merits of a party’s claims.” (quotation omitted)
• stating “a controversy is not justiciable when a plaintiff independently caused his own injury”
• finding inmate lacked standing to challenge officials’ refusal to send absentee ballots to county residents in county jail under Georgia law because inmate never provided address of jail where he wanted absentee ballot delivered

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).