Standing

SCOTUS: Plaintiffs lack standing in social-media coercion case (Murthy v. Missouri)

| Importance: 6/10

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on June 26, 2024, that neither state nor individual plaintiffs established standing to enjoin federal officials over alleged coercion of social-media platforms. Justice Barrett’s majority opinion found plaintiffs failed to show government actions caused platforms to …

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SCOTUS: No standing in challenge to mifepristone changes (FDA v. AHM)

| Importance: 6/10

The Supreme Court unanimously held the plaintiffs lacked Article III standing to challenge FDA’s 2016/2021 actions on mifepristone, leaving the agency’s changes in place. Justice Kavanaugh delivered the opinion, with the Court finding that the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine failed to …

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