Court Opinion

ID: 9592618
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 00:15:50.721443+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:06:56.288438
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RYAN, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
While I agree with my colleagues that the district court’s judgment should be affirmed, I do not agree that the plaintiff had standing to bring this federal lawsuit.
In my judgment, the Honorable Thomas W. Phillips of the district court got it precisely right: Judy Williams had no standing to sue because she failed to show that she personally suffered “an actual or imminent” injury that is both “concrete and particularized” and “not conjectural or hypothetical.” Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555, 560, 112 S.Ct. 2130, 119 L.Ed.2d 351 (1992) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted). She suffered no injury at all, not even the cost of a telephone call to the Knoxville City Court to request a hearing. Had she made such a call, she would have been given a hearing date and learned that no processing fee would be assessed.
*622I would affirm the district court’s judgment on Judge Phillips’s well written opinion.