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Dallas Morning News

Jul 6, 2024

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Coale Examines SCOTUS and 5th Circuit Rulings in Dallas Morning News Op-Ed

In a commentary for The Dallas Morning News, the firm’s David Coale writes: 

“The Supreme Court clearly sees a persistent and significant problem with how the 5th Circuit treats the key threshold issue of standing. The end of this term offers an opportunity for the 5th Circuit to align its approach to standing with the Supreme Court’s. In fact, a largely unnoticed 5th Circuit opinion from June illustrates exactly how to do that, if litigants and judges will follow its lead.”

He points to the court’s recent denial of standing in a Second Amendment case involving gun silencers – finding that the claimants could only cite hypothetical harms – as a guide for future decisions.

Read the commentary here.