VON KERSSENBROCK-PRASCHMA v. SAUNDERS

No. 94-2434.

48 F.3d 323 (1995)

Justus Graf von KERSSENBROCK-PRASCHMA, a citizen of Germany, Appellant, v. John SAUNDERS, Director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture; Jeremiah W. Nixon, Attorney General of the State of Missouri, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided February 23, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tom K. O'Loughlin, II, Cape Girardeau, MO, argued, for appellant.

Gary L. Gardner, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, MO, argued (John R. Munich, on the brief), for appellee.

Before MAGILL and BEAM, Circuit Judges, and PIERSOL, District Judge.


MAGILL, Circuit Judge.

Justus Graf von Kerssenbrock-Praschma (Praschma), the alien owner of two tracts of Missouri farmland, appeals the dismissal of his challenge to a Missouri statutory scheme that prohibits future acquisition of agricultural land by aliens. The district court dismissed Praschma's challenge because it concluded that "the Statutes take nothing from" Praschma, and therefore Praschma lacked standing to raise his challenge. Because we believe the district...

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