Court Opinion

ID: 8914688
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-27 04:30:40.40092+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:08:52.128748
License: Public Domain

MARKEY, Chief Judge,
concurring.
I agree that standing is a threshold consideration. If the facts pleaded show standing, the pleader is in court. Those facts must thereafter be proved, but at the pleading stage they need only be “capable of proof at trial.” United States v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures, 412 U.S. 669, 689, 93 S.Ct. 2405, 2416, 37 L.Ed.2d 254 (1973). The facts establishing standing were proved here. That to me ends our consideration of the standing issue. Because I am not aware of an instance in which the board has sustained standing on the basis of unproven *1032allegations, or in which it has canceled a registration on the basis of mere allegations, I see no reason to discuss its past decisions. Nor, for the same reason, do I view the board’s approach as shifting the burden.