Legal Opinion
Pennsylvania Prison Society v. Cortés
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided November 5, 2007No. 06-3354, 06-3370PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GARTH, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents an issue of our jurisdiction — standing—that was not raised, and therefore not considered, by the District Court. As the Supreme Court has held, “[t]he rules of standing, whether as aspects of the Art. Ill case-or-controversy requirement or as reflections of prudential considerations defining and limiting the role of the courts, are threshold determinants of the propriety of judicial intervention.” War th v. Seldin, 422 U.S. 490, 517-18, 95 S.Ct. 2197, 45 L.Ed.2d 843 (1975).
“For that reason, every federal appellate court has a special…
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