Legal Opinion
Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 3, 1997No. 95-974PublishedCited by 2,242 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ginsburg
Federal courts lack competence to rule definitively on the meaning of state legislation, see, e. g., Reetz v. Bozanich, 397 U. S. 82, 86-87 (1970), nor may they adjudicate challenges to state measures absent a showing of actual impact on the challenger, see, e. g., Golden v. Zwickler, 394 U. S. 103, 110 (1969). The Ninth Circuit, in the case at hand, lost sight of these limitations. The initiating plaintiff, Maria-Kelly F. Yniguez, sought federal-court resolution of a novel question: the compatibility with the Federal Constitution of a 1988 amendment to Arizona’s Constitution declaring…
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