City of Los Angeles v. Lyons, No. 81-1064 (U.S. Supreme Court) (461 U.S. 95; 103 S.Ct. 1660) (April 20, 1983) (Justice White)
Here a bitterly divided Court denied standing to obtain an injunction in a civil rights suit where the plaintiff could not show a sufficient likelihood that he would be injured in the future by the police chokehold that he sought to enjoin.
In his dissent, Justice Marshall described the facts ...
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