Thomas D. Hays v. City of Urbana, Illinois

How courts have described this case

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

• holding no standing for plaintiff landlords who failed to show they would bear the cost of compliance because they did not rent apartments falling within Section 8 ordinance
• “Costs of compliance necessary to avoid prosecution can constitute [injury in fact].”
• “Long ago, the Supreme Court held that a person who must comply with a law or face sanctions has standing to challenge its application to him, even if the threat of prosecution is not immediate — indeed, even if the law is not yet in effect”
• challenge to the validity of a city ordinance
• challenge to the validity of a city ordinance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).