The doctrine that associations have legal standing to litigate on behalf of members is long established in federal law.But is it under threat?Top attorneys with three major associations with legal arms are concerned, though not yet alarmed, and watching the courts carefully. First, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge from the anti-abortion Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine to the way the abortion pill mifepristone is prescribed. The Court held that the Alliance and its members lacked standing to sue because “sincere legal, moral, ideological and policy objections to abortion and the FDA’s relaxed regulation of mifepristone” aren’t enough to “establish a justiciable… Read More