legal standing
Right to sue
Legal standing is the right to bring a lawsuit or legal claim before a court.
Courts require that a plaintiff have a sufficient connection to the matter—typically direct harm or imminent threat of harm—before hearing the case.
Without standing, a case is dismissed regardless of its merits: The environmental group lacked legal standing because they couldn't demonstrate specific injury.
Also called simply standing or *locus standi*.
- ripenessReady to eat state
- justiciabilitySuitability for court decision
- civil litigationNon-criminal court proceedings
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
- judicial reviewCourts invalidating unconstitutional acts
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- litigationpleadings, lawsuit, plaintiff, complaint, lawsuits
- legal rightsconstitutional rights, fundamental rights, Miranda rights, Bill of Rights, right to silence
- legal statuscivil status, personhood, capacity to act, incapacity, citizenship
- legal capacitymental capacity, capacity, incapacity, competence, competency
- Legal Procedurecivil procedure, criminal procedure, trial procedure, court proceedings, burden of proof