Nader v. Hughes

MILLER, P.J.,

The court raised sua sponte, and now resolves, the question of whether or *344not the plaintiff is an aggrieved party or otherwise had standing to bring this mandamus action.

After jury selection, the court held a second pretrial conference to discuss and resolve issues and raised the question we now face.1 The trial did not commence. On our own we continued the case generally to give the parties a short period of time to submit briefs on this issue. We believe that the standing issue should be resolved now before an expensive trial.

BACKGROUND

Mark Nader died as the result of a gunshot…