Court Opinion

ID: 9787266
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 00:14:07.952117+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:36:54.128284
License: Public Domain

Justice KIDWELL,
Specially Concurring.
Although I concur in the result of this case, I am writing separately once again to address the confusion in the current law of standing in Idaho. See Young v. City of Ketchum, 137 Idaho 102, 44 P.3d 1157 (2002) (Kidwell, J., dissenting). My concern is that, in view of the recent holdings of this Court, particularly in Selkirk-Priest Basin Assoc. v. State, 128 Idaho 831, 919 P.2d 1032 (1996), Van Valkenburgh v. Citizens For Term Limits, 135 Idaho 121, 15 P.3d 1129 (2000), and Young, 137 Idaho 102, 44 P.3d 1157, one *479could suggest that this Court simply applies the doctrine of standing as a matter of convenience, in a result-oriented manner. Therefore, although I agree that under the facts of this case the appellant does lack standing, I believe the appropriate course in the resolution of this case would be to revisit the recent decisions of this Court and return to the doctrine of standing as it stood prior to Van Valkenburgh.