Sentence examples for granted standing from inspiring English sources

The proponents of the discriminatory proposition should be granted standing, and they should lose.

In 2011 California's state Supreme Court granted standing to the Prop 8 backers.

It's not clear that the plaintiffs will be able to clear the first hurdle of being heard in court and granted standing to sue.

Each of us will be granted standing to comment on the other for many years to come and others will compare our characters and trajectories.

The most beautiful part of his 62d home run was that, at the moment of impact, he was no contemporary churl, taking it all for granted, standing at the plate, admiring his art.

Ginsburg wondered whether the court had "ever granted standing to proponents of ballot initiatives?" She questioned why, once the law is passed, it proponents should be granted any special status to see it enforced.

Thus the Administrative Procedure Act grants standing to a person 'aggrieved by agency action within the meaning of a relevant statute.' 5 U.S.C. 702 (1964 ed., Supp. IV).

When we are urged to grant standing to a criminal defendant to assert a violation, not of his own constitutional rights but of someone else's, we cannot but give weight to practical difficulties such as those foreseen by Mr. Justice Harlan in the quoted language.

In particular, it has been unwilling to grant standing for a generalized constitutional injury other than to a plaintiff who is protected by a statute or when a statute grants standing.

(However, most legal observers believe the panel will grant standing to the proponents, based on the decision of the California Supreme Court).

The problem merely was that Congress hadn't bothered to grant standing to sue to animals under the Endangered Species Act or other environmental protection measures.