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Plains Commerce Bank v. Long Family Land and Cattle Co.

By Gordon Smith, Christine, Hurt, Vic Fleischer, Fred Tung, Lisa Fairfax, David Zaring

I told you that standing is an obsession of far too many federal judges these days, and John Roberts, whatever his other useful qualities, is one of the worst offenders.  He kicked off the Long Family opinion today with a section on whether a bank had standing to sue in federal court because it believed an Indian court didn't have jurisdiction over it.  The Indian court had disagreed and, indeed, had imposed a $750,000 judgment against the bank. The standing the bank had to dispute th read more

Full post as published by Conglomerate on June 25, 2008 (boomark / email).