Ward v. Santa Fe Independent School District

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a plaintiff cannot raise a claim that could have been raised in a previous appeal in the same case
• dismissing for lack of standing plaintiff’s appeal from judgment in his favor where district court forwent merits and sua sponte granted plaintiff complete relief
• collecting cases and concluding that “because the plaintiffs are not seeking a modification of the judgment but only a modification of the opinion, they have no standing to appeal”
• rejecting contention that nominal damages are a means of securing a judicial declaration of illegality and explaining that a ruling on the merits is not “relief” to which any plaintiff is entitled

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