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Panel debates bill to tighten legal standing rules; ACLU warns of curtailed access to courts
Summary
Sen. Daniel Emmerich said Senate Bill 395 would require plaintiffs to show individualized injury and limit standing claimed solely on public importance; opponents including the ACLU said the bill would narrow access to courts and impede challenges to government action.
Senate Bill 395, introduced by Sen. Daniel Emmerich, would raise the legal requirements for standing by emphasizing the need for an injury or a likelihood of injury and by preventing standing that rests solely on public importance or speculative harms.
Emmerich told the committee the measure is intended to restore a constitutional injury-based standard: “You either have to demonstrate you are injured…
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