context: We cannot say of any future case what emphasis will be placed on the State Department's advisory opinion or what emphasis would be proper. For that reason, the injury or threatened injury is too speculative to confer standing. We think it impossible to conclude there is a real and immediate threat that any particular applicant would be denied asylum on grounds of which appellants complain.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.parenthetical: rejecting for failure to present a case or controversy a union's attempt to obtain an injunction prohibiting the INS from applying a statute in a situation that had not arisen at the time of suit
citation_a.sentence: See Harrington v. Bush, 553 F.2d 190, 208-09 (D.C.Cir.1977) (denying standing to appellant Congressman to challenge alleged illegal use of funds by the CIA in part because the alleged harm “would take place, if at all, at some undetermined time in the future when Congress exercised” a power related to the alleged illegality); see also International Longshoremen’s Union, Local 37 v. Boyd, 347 U.S. 222, 74 S.Ct. 447, 98 L.Ed. 650 (1954) (rejecting for failure to present a case or controversy a union’s attempt to obtain an injunction prohibiting the INS from applying a statute in a situation that had not arisen at the time of suit).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 553 F.2d 190, 208-09
citation_b.parenthetical: denying standing to appellant Congressman to challenge alleged illegal use of funds by the CIA in part because the alleged harm "would take place, if at all, at some undetermined time in the future when Congress exercised" a power related to the alleged illegality
citation_b.sentence: See Harrington v. Bush, 553 F.2d 190, 208-09 (D.C.Cir.1977) (denying standing to appellant Congressman to challenge alleged illegal use of funds by the CIA in part because the alleged harm “would take place, if at all, at some undetermined time in the future when Congress exercised” a power related to the alleged illegality); see also International Longshoremen’s Union, Local 37 v. Boyd, 347 U.S. 222, 74 S.Ct. 447, 98 L.Ed. 650 (1954) (rejecting for failure to present a case or controversy a union’s attempt to obtain an injunction prohibiting the INS from applying a statute in a situation that had not arisen at the time of suit).