United States v. Benjamin Higgerson

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• holding that redressability cannot be established when it depends on future choices by third parties “whose exercise of broad and legitimate discretion the courts cannot presume to either control or to predict”
• explaining that \standing theories that require guesswork as to how independent decisionmakers will exercise their judgment\ are not sufficient to establish redressability (quoting Murthy v. Missouri, 603 U.S. 43, 57 (2024))
• noting that even if a “court’s action would not directly redress the injury,” the injury is redressable if the court’s action “would very likely spur the next steps necessary to redress” the injury
• finding no standing a plaintiff did not show “its requested relief would spur [a third party] to take the additional steps necessary to remedy the injury” (quoting Utah v. Evans, 536 U.S. 452, 464 (2002)
• redressability difficult when relief depends on response of 24 third party’s discretion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).