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Fruit Of The Poisonous Lemon Tree: How The Supreme Court Created Offended-Observer Standing, And Why It's Time For It To Go, Joseph C. Davis, Nicholas R. Reaves
Fruit Of The Poisonous Lemon Tree: How The Supreme Court Created Offended-Observer Standing, And Why It's Time For It To Go, Joseph C. Davis, Nicholas R. Reaves
Notre Dame Law Review Reflection
Can individuals who observe what they consider to be offensive government speech or conduct sue to stop it? Typically not—absent additional evidence of a direct and particularized injury. Yet in one area of the law, the fundamental requirements of Article III (limiting federal standing to actual “cases” or “controversies”) are relaxed: the Establishment Clause. At least ten circuits have held that the mere observation of a display containing religious content (the Ten Commandments, a cross, a menorah, and the like) on public property suffices to create an injury-in-fact that opens the doors to federal court.
This Essay addresses the continued …