Toll Bros., Inc. v. Township of Readington

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a plaintiff with an option to buy property subject to zoning restrictions had standing to challenge the restrictions that barred development
• holding that a real estate developer with an option to purchase property had standing to challenge a zoning ordinance because the ordinance thwarted its specific development plans
• holding that where a hypothetical order from the court granting the requested relief would be substantially likely to redress a plaintiff’s injury, the third prong of standing would be satisfied
• “If the injury-in-fact prong focuses on whether the plaintiff suffered harm, then the traceability prong focuses on who inflicted that harm.”
• “The plaintiff must establish that the defendant’s challenged actions, and not the actions of some third party, caused the plaintiffs injury.”
• “Courts enforce the case-or-controversy requirement through several justiciability doctrines,” which “include standing, ripeness, mootness, the political-question doctrine, and the prohibition on advisory opinions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).