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To: semimojo
Not if you can't sue the state because the state's not the one enforcing the law. You won't ever get SCOTUS to consider the case.

There is, in fact, a way to get 'locus standii', or Standing. It is called the "Chilling Effect" doctrine:

The party is not directly harmed by the conditions by which they are petitioning the court for relief but asks for it because the harm involved has some reasonable relation to their situation, and the continued existence of the harm may affect others who might not be able to ask a court for relief. In the United States, this is the grounds for asking for a law to be struck down as violating the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, because while the plaintiff might not be directly affected, the law might so adversely affect others that one might never know what was not done or created by those who fear they would become subject to the law. This is known as the "chilling effects" doctrine.

48 posted on 12/12/2021 5:52:15 AM PST by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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To: Lazamataz
There is, in fact, a way to get 'locus standii', or Standing.

If it hasn't worked in TX I don't see why it would work in CA.

50 posted on 12/12/2021 5:58:15 AM PST by semimojo
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