Mark A Lemley on Nostr: After the execrable Fifth Circuit decision in Alliance for Hypocritical Medicine, one ...
After the execrable Fifth Circuit decision in Alliance for Hypocritical Medicine, one of two things is true:
(1) every doctor now has standing to sue to challenge every conservative policy that might hurt anyone, from climate change to immigration to health care.
OR
(2) everyone has to stop pretending that there is any law or logic to standing doctrine beyond giving right-wing judges the power to decide to hear cases promoting conservative causes and decide not to hear ones they don't like
(1) every doctor now has standing to sue to challenge every conservative policy that might hurt anyone, from climate change to immigration to health care.
OR
(2) everyone has to stop pretending that there is any law or logic to standing doctrine beyond giving right-wing judges the power to decide to hear cases promoting conservative causes and decide not to hear ones they don't like