In Raskin v. Dallas Indep. Sch. Dist., No. 21-11180 (5th Cir. June 2, 2023), the Fifth Circuit goes against the weight of ten other circuits and holds that there is no absolute bar to non-attorney parents representing their children pro se in federal court under the language of 28 U.S.C. § 1654. (Here’s a priorContinue reading “Fifth Circuit Breaks With Other Circuits and Holds That Parents May Represent Minor Children Pro Se in Federal Court”
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Sixth Circuit Rejects “Juridical Link” Doctrine to Extend Class Standing to Defendant Who Did Not Injure the Named Plaintiff, Splitting with Seventh Circuit
In Fox v. Saginaw Cnty., Mich., No. 11-1265 (6th Cir. Apr. 28, 2023), the Sixth Circuit holds that even in a putative Fed. R. Civ. P. 23 class action, a representative plaintiff only has standing to sue the entities that injured them. It rejects the “juridical link” doctrine adopted by the Seventh Circuit in PaytonContinue reading “Sixth Circuit Rejects “Juridical Link” Doctrine to Extend Class Standing to Defendant Who Did Not Injure the Named Plaintiff, Splitting with Seventh Circuit”
Second Circuit Agrees with Ninth Circuit That Court Can Bypass Article III Standing Issue to Address Issue Preclusion As Alternative Basis for Dismissing Case
In Phoenix Light SF Ltd. v. Bank of N.Y. Mellon, No. 22-239 (2d Cir. Apr. 26, 2023), the Second Circuit holds that it does not need to reach a complex Article III standing issue when the case could be decided on a straightforward issue of issue preclusion. “[W]e join the Ninth Circuit in concluding thatContinue reading “Second Circuit Agrees with Ninth Circuit That Court Can Bypass Article III Standing Issue to Address Issue Preclusion As Alternative Basis for Dismissing Case”
Eleventh Circuit Holds That Competitive Injury Must Be Proved, Not Presumed, to Establish Injury-In-Fact for Article III Standing at Summary Judgment Stage
In TocMail Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., No. 22-10223 (11th Cir. Apr. 25, 2023) (per curiam), the Eleventh Circuit dismisses an appeal by a cybersecurity company suing Microsoft for false advertising under the Lanham Act, holding that at the summary judgment stage it failed to establish any grounds for proving lost profits or any other cognizableContinue reading “Eleventh Circuit Holds That Competitive Injury Must Be Proved, Not Presumed, to Establish Injury-In-Fact for Article III Standing at Summary Judgment Stage”
Fourth Circuit Joins First and Eleventh in Holding That a Disabled Tester Incurs an Informational Injury When Denied Access to Information on a Hotel Website, Creating Article III Standing
In Laufer v. Naranda Hotels, LLC, No.20-2348 (4th Cir. Feb. 15, 2023), the Fourth Circuit holds that a disabled customer had Article III standing to pursue her ADA claim against a Baltimore, MD hotel with an allegedly non-compliant website. I previously discussed this issue in a October 5, 2022 blog entry. “According to [her] Complaint,Continue reading “Fourth Circuit Joins First and Eleventh in Holding That a Disabled Tester Incurs an Informational Injury When Denied Access to Information on a Hotel Website, Creating Article III Standing”
Eighth Circuit Sides with Fifth Circuit that States Lack Article III Standing to Challenge the Biden Administration’s Executive Order on Climate Change
In State of Missouri v. Biden, No. 21-3013 (8th Cir. Oct. 19, 2022), the Eighth Circuit rejected a challenge by thirteen states to the president’s executive order reinstating a governmental taskforce on climate change, abrogating several executive orders of the past administration, and directing that climate data be gathered for regulatory cost-benefit analysis. The decisionContinue reading “Eighth Circuit Sides with Fifth Circuit that States Lack Article III Standing to Challenge the Biden Administration’s Executive Order on Climate Change”
First Circuit Sides with Eleventh Circuit in Holding that a Disabled Tester Incurs an Informational Injury When Denied Access to Information on a Hotel Website, Creating Article III Standing
In Laufer v. Acheson Hotels, LLC, No. 21-1410 (1st Cir. Oct. 5, 2022), the First Circuit agreed with the Eleventh Circuit – and broke with the Second, Fifth, and Tenth Circuits – that a disabled tester suffers an injury, worthy of Article III standing, when they cannot access information on a hotel reservation website inContinue reading “First Circuit Sides with Eleventh Circuit in Holding that a Disabled Tester Incurs an Informational Injury When Denied Access to Information on a Hotel Website, Creating Article III Standing”
Fifth Circuit Tosses Injunction Against State Under National Voter Registration Act for Plaintiffs’ Lack of Injury of Fact for Title III Standing
In Campaign Legal Center v. Scott, No. 22-50692 (5th Cir. Sept. 29, 2022), the Fifth Circuit holds that a group of voting-rights organizations suing the State of Texas for information under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (“NVRA”) lacked Article III standing to bring their claim. The plaintiff organizations sued Texas under the NVRA’sContinue reading “Fifth Circuit Tosses Injunction Against State Under National Voter Registration Act for Plaintiffs’ Lack of Injury of Fact for Title III Standing”
Split Fifth Circuit Panel Holds That Parents of Children with Disabilities Lacked Article III Standing to Demand Mask-Mandates Against COVID in Public Schools
In E.T. v. Paxton, No. 21-51083 (5th Cir. July 25, 2022), a Fifth Circuit panel splits three ways on whether a group of parents had standing to sue Texas Governor Greg Abbott, the state’s attorney general, and other officers to enjoin an executive order that banned mask mandates in schools, specifically as an accommodation forContinue reading “Split Fifth Circuit Panel Holds That Parents of Children with Disabilities Lacked Article III Standing to Demand Mask-Mandates Against COVID in Public Schools”
Plaintiffs’ “Mad-Libs-Style Complaints” Alleging Americans with Disabilities Act Violations Lacked Plausible Grounds for Article III Standing, Holds Split Second Circuit Panel
In Calcano v. Swarovski N.A. Ltd., No. 20-1552 (2d Cir. June 2, 2022), a 2-1 panel of the Second Circuit holds—in a case involving four blind plaintiffs—that a template complaint used by a law firm in scores of ADA public-accommodation cases that it filed lacked enough in the way of facts to plausibly allege anContinue reading “Plaintiffs’ “Mad-Libs-Style Complaints” Alleging Americans with Disabilities Act Violations Lacked Plausible Grounds for Article III Standing, Holds Split Second Circuit Panel”
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