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Dear Mayor Brasseaux:

You have requested an opinion of the Attorney General on the issue of standing. Specifically, you want to know if someone who lives outside of the city limits of Carencro and who does not work in Carencro has standing to raise a constitutional challenge to a City of Carencro ordinance.

The foundation of Louisiana's standing requirement is La. Code Civ.P. art. 681, which provides that "[e]xcept as otherwise provided by law, an action can be brought only by a person having a real and actual interest which he asserts." A court will not rule on an issue unless the challenged…