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City of Los Angeles v. Lyons

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Limited by some courts
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
461 U.S. 95
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
90 of 90
Citing cases (total)
5,795
Treatment dates
1998
Limited by some courts
At least one reviewed court has limited this case’s holding to narrower facts or a narrower rule. No reviewed court has overruled it. All 90 flagged citations for City of Los Angeles v. Lyons were read. One district court declined to extend Lyons's separate standing inquiry to statutory civil penalties, as listed below.
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Other citing opinions applied its requirement of a real and immediate threat of future injury or distinguished their facts under that rule.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

5,795 later cases cite City of Los Angeles v. Lyons; 90 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

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  • The court declined to extend Lyons's separate standing inquiry for injunctions to Clean Water Act civil penalties when the plaintiff could seek an injunction.

    Natural Resources Defense Council v. Southwest Marine, Inc. · S.D. Cal. · filed

    Lyons has not been extended beyond the injunc-tive relief field. More particularly, Lyons has not been extended to instances where statutory damages are available.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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