Zivotofsky, Menachem v. Secretary of State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “[a]nyone whose request for specific information has been denied [under FOIA] has standing to bring an action” and collecting authorities
• noting in the context of 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(3) that “[a]nyone whose request for specific information has been denied has standing to bring an action”
• stating that “[a]lthough it is natural to think of an injury in terms of some economic, physical, or psychological damage, a concrete and particular injury for standing purposes can also consist of the violation of an individual right conferred on a person by statute”
• Under FOIA, “[t]he requestor is injured-in-fact for standing purposes because he did not get what the statute entitled him to receive.”
• “The requester is injured-in-fact for standing purposes because he did not get what the statute entitled him to receive.”
• informational injury sufficiently alleged where plaintiff offered “at the least a colorable reading of the statute”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).