Examples of State Plaintiffs in a sentence
The imposition of regulatory burdens on State Plaintiffs is sufficient to demonstrate an injury to their sovereign interest in creating and enforcing a legal code to govern child custody proceedings in state courts.
If, as State Plaintiffs alleged, the Secretary promulgated a rule binding on states without the authority to do so, then State Plaintiffs have suffered a concrete injury to their sovereign interest in controlling child custody proceedings that was caused by the Final Rule.
Thus, State Plaintiffs are entitled to special solicitude in our standing inquiry.
Moreover, State Plaintiffs allege that the Final Rule affects their sovereign interest in controlling child custody proceedings in state courts.
We conclude that State Plaintiffs have demonstrated injury and causation with respect to this claim, as State Plaintiffs’ injury from the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe’s decision to depart from ICWA section 1915’s placement preferences is concrete and particularized and not speculative.