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Supreme Court· 5/23/2016

Wittman v. Personhuballah

Citations

  • 578 U.S. 539
  • 195 L. Ed. 2d 37
  • 2016 U.S. LEXIS 3353
  • 136 S. Ct. 1732
  • 84 U.S.L.W. 4322
  • 26 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 179

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that intervenors lack standing and dismissing appeal for 12 lack of jurisdiction
  • suggesting that a political gerrymandering claim may proceed where the plaintiff presented \a plea for relief based on a legal theory put forward by a Justice of this Court and uncontradicted by the majority in any of our cases\
  • dismissing appeal by intervenors who could not explain how their alleged injury would be redressed by a favorable judicial decision
  • \The need to satisfy these three [standing] requirements persists throughout the life of the lawsuit.\
  • “The need to satisfy these [Article III] requirements persists throughout the life of the lawsuit.”
  • “When challenged by a court (or by an opposing party) concerned about standing, the party invoking the court’s jurisdiction cannot simply allege a nonobvious harm, without more.”

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Judges: Breyer

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29 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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