United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. v. Ronald Wilson Reagan, President of the United States

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that \[t]he [chilling effect] consists of present deterrence from First Amendment conduct because of the difficulty of determining the application of a regulatory provision to that conduct \ (emphasis added)
• distinguishing a chilling effect from “the immediate threat of concrete, harmful action”
• A trial court’s “discovery rulings are reversed only on a clear showing of abuse, and it is unusual to find abuse of discretion in these matters.”
• “The problem with the appellants’ attempt to rely upon this sort of harm to establish standing in the present case is that they have not adequately averred that any specific action is threatened or even contemplated against them.”
• rejecting an identical attempt to distinguish Laird
• discussing the district court opinion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).