Court Opinion

ID: 9431684
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:32:57.702045+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:29.690803
License: Public Domain

Justice Brennan,
with whom Justice White, Justice Marshall, and Justice Blackmun join,
concurring in part and concurring in the judgment.
I join all but Part II-B-1 of the Court’s opinion. I disagree both with the view expressed in Justice Kennedy’s opinion that the plaintiffs below, particularly the Arizona Education Association, had no standing, and also with the decision to reach that issue. The Court holds in Part II-B-2 that the question whether the state-court plaintiffs had Article III standing is irrelevant when it is the defendants below who now invoke the authority of the federal courts. The dis*634cussion of the standing question in Part II-B-1 is therefore unnecessary.