Citizens had standing to sue, the Court concluded, because the challenged spending directly affected taxpayers who fund government programs.

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The Supreme Court split 4:4 on the issue of whether the states even had standing to sue (Sotomayor abstained).

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So someone like Susan Seven-Sky (aka Susan Sevensky) has standing to sue just becasue she is worried about it.

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First American argues Edward suffered no harm and therefore has no standing to sue under Article III of the Constitution.

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Yet none of those other people would likely have standing to sue, so their inclusion only underscores the state's untenable litigation position.

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Short of an outright resolution, the Court could honorably rule that the private parties who filed the case don't have Article III standing to sue.

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Thus it's possible she lacks standing to sue over the issue.

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In a 5-4 decision, the Court ruled that the challenged tax credit was not government spending and therefore the claimants lacked the standing to sue allowed in Flast.

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Former Solicitor General Walter Dellinger, who served under President Clinton, has filed a friend of the court brief arguing persuasively that these intervenors do not have standing to sue (meaning they have no legal stake in the issue, but only political interest).

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The first changed the traditional notions of legal standing for plaintiffs to sue.

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