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Supreme Court· 6/29/1995

United States v. Hays

Citations

  • 515 U.S. 737
  • 115 S. Ct. 2431
  • 132 L. Ed. 2d 635
  • 1995 U.S. LEXIS 4464
  • 63 U.S.L.W. 4679
  • 95 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 4976
  • 9 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 256
  • 95 Daily Journal DAR 8561

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that only those voters residing in an allegedly unconstitutionally drawn voting district have standing to challenge the unconstitutionality of the voting district
  • holding that only those voters residing in an allegedly unconstitutionally drawn voting district have standing to challenge the unconstitutionality of the voting district
  • recognizing that courts “refuse[] to recognize a generalized grievance against allegedly illegal governmental conduct as sufficient for standing to in- voke the federal judicial power”
  • concluding that, by definition, article III standing is not an affirmative defense
  • holding that while a plaintiff residing in a racially gerrymandered district had standing to challenge the redistricting, a plaintiff not residing in such a district lacked standing to challenge the redistricting
  • concluding that, by definition, article III standing is not an affirmative defense

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Judges: O'Connor, Rehnquist, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Breyer, Stevens, Ginsburg

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Cites

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