context: It asks to be declared representative of the few (five or six), not the many, whether the comparison group is all TRAC members or all Allnet subscribers June-December 1984. Even in an equitable relief context, TRAC's plea for standing would stray from the core concept of associational representation.
citation_a.signal: cf.
citation_a.identifier: 400 F.Supp. 1208, 1213
citation_a.parenthetical: court grants standing to association to seek injunctive relief to benefit 6 of its 3,500 members, while noting that "we might feel more confident of [the association's] taking a vigorous, adversarial stance had plaintiff been able to identify more members adversely affected by the Act"
citation_a.sentence: See, e.g., NAACP v. Alabama, 357 U.S. 449, 459, 78 S.Ct. 1163, 1170, 2 L.Ed.2d 1488 (1958) (association has standing to assert members’ rights “because it and its members are in every practical sense identical [and it] is but the medium through which individual members seek to make more effective the expression of their own views”); Robinson v. Conslisk, 385 F.Supp. 529, 538 (N.D.Ill.1974) (“Since the League is the collective embodiment of its members, the League has standing to protect its members’ rights against encroachment by third parties.”); cf. Action Alliance for Senior Citizens v. Shapp, 400 F.Supp. 1208, 1213 (E.D.Pa.1975) (court grants standing to association to seek injunctive relief to benefit 6 of its 3,500 members, while noting that “we might feel more confident of [the association’s] taking a vigorous, adversarial stance had plaintiff been able to identify more members adversely affected by the Act”).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 357 U.S. 449, 459
citation_b.parenthetical: association has standing to assert members' rights "because it and its members are in every practical sense identical [and it] is but the medium through which individual members seek to make more effective the expression of their own views"
citation_b.sentence: See, e.g., NAACP v. Alabama, 357 U.S. 449, 459, 78 S.Ct. 1163, 1170, 2 L.Ed.2d 1488 (1958) (association has standing to assert members’ rights “because it and its members are in every practical sense identical [and it] is but the medium through which individual members seek to make more effective the expression of their own views”); Robinson v. Conslisk, 385 F.Supp. 529, 538 (N.D.Ill.1974) (“Since the League is the collective embodiment of its members, the League has standing to protect its members’ rights against encroachment by third parties.”); cf. Action Alliance for Senior Citizens v. Shapp, 400 F.Supp. 1208, 1213 (E.D.Pa.1975) (court grants standing to association to seek injunctive relief to benefit 6 of its 3,500 members, while noting that “we might feel more confident of [the association’s] taking a vigorous, adversarial stance had plaintiff been able to identify more members adversely affected by the Act”).