Legal Opinion
Student Members of SAME v. Rumsfeld
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided June 9, 2004No. CIV.A.3-03-CV1867 (JCH)PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RULING ON DEFENDANT’S 12(B)(1) MOTION TO DISMISS
HALL, District Judge.
Defendant Donald Rumsfeld, sued in his official capacity as United States Secretary of Defense, moves under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1) to dismiss the complaint against him for lack of standing and lack of ripeness. For the following reasons, the motion is denied, in part and granted in part.
I. BACKGROUND
Two Yale Law School student organizations, “SAME,” which stands for the “Student/Faculty Alliance for Military Equality,” and “Outlaws,” an organization formed with the goal of educating the Law School community…
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