R. Patterson v. United States Senate

MEMORANDUM

R. Wayne Patterson, a California attorney, appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing his action for injunctive and declaratory relief challenging the constitutionality of United States Senate Rule XXII (the “Cloture Rule”). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo, Hayes v. County of San Diego, 736 F.3d 1223, 1228 (9th Cir. 2013), and we affirm.

The district court properly dismissed for lack of standing Patterson’s action because Patterson failed to allege facts sufficient to demonstrate an injury in fact. See Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555, 560-61 , 112 S.Ct. 2130 , 119 L.Ed.2d 351 (1992) (constitutional standing requires an “injury in fact,” causation, and redressability; “injury in fact” refers to “an invasion of a legally protected interest which is (a) concrete and particularized ,.. and (b) actual or imminent, not conjectural or hypothetical” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)); see also Raines v. Byrd, 521 U.S. 811, 826, 829-30 , 117 S.Ct. 2312 , 138 L.Ed.2d 849 (1997) (legislators lacked standing to challenge the constitutionality of the Line Item Veto Act because they complained only of an…