California Ex Rel. Lockyer v. United States Department of Agriculture

AMENDED OPINION AND ORDER ON CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION........................................................879

II. THE PARTIES..........................................................879

III. BACKGROUND..........................................................879

IV. STANDING .............................................................883

A. Standing Based on Procedural Injury ....................................883

1. Procedural injury...................................................884

2. Concrete interests...................................................884

3. Reasonable probability...............................................885

4. Causation and Redressability.........................................887

B. State Plaintiffs’ Standing Based on Substantive Injury......................888

1. Injury in fact.......................................................889

2. Causation and redressability..........................................889

C. Prudential Standing Requirements.......................................889

V. RIPENESS..............................................................890

VI. STANDARD OF…