WASKUL v. WASHTENAW COUNTY COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH

No. 16-2742.

900 F.3d 250 (2018)

Derek WASKUL; Cory Schneider; Kevin Wiesner; Washtenaw Association for Community Advocacy, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. WASHTENAW COUNTY COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH; Nick Lyon, in his official capacity as Director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services; Jane Terwilliger, in her official capacity as Director of Community Mental Health Partnership of Southeast Michigan; Trish Cortes, in her official capacity as Director of Washtenaw County Community Mental Health; Community Mental Health Partnership of Southeast Michigan, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: August 14, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Edward P. Krugman , NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE, New York, New York, for Appellants. Stefani A. Carter , STEFANI A. CARTER, PLLC, Ypsilanti, Michigan, for Appellees Washtenaw County Community Mental Health and Trish Cortes. Marcelyn A. Stepanski , JOHNSON, ROSATI, SCHULTZ & JOPPICH, P.C., Farmington Hills, Michigan, for Appellees Community Mental Health Partnership and Jane Terwilliger. ON BRIEF: Edward P. Krugman , Gregory L. Bass , NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE, New York, New York, Nicholas A. Gable , LEGAL SERVICES OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, Michigan, for Appellants. Stefani A. Carter , STEFANI A. CARTER, PLLC, Ypsilanti, Michigan, for Appellees Washtenaw County Community Mental Health and Trish Cortes. Margaret Debler , Laura Bailey Brown , JOHNSON, ROSATI, SCHULTZ & JOPPICH, P.C., Farmington Hills, Michigan, for Appellees Community Mental Health Partnership and Jane Terwilliger. William R. Morris , OFFICE OF THE MICHIGAN ATTORNEY GENERAL, Lansing, Michigan, for Appellee Nick Lyon.

McKEAGUE, J., delivered the opinion of the court in which KEITH, J., joined, and STRANCH, J., joined in the result. STRANCH, J. (pp. 10-12), delivered a separate opinion concurring in the judgment.


OPINION

An association generally has standing if "at least one of [its] members would have standing to sue on his own." United Food & Commercial Workers v. Brown, 517 U.S. 544, 554-55, 116 S.Ct. 1529, 134 L.Ed.2d 758 (1996...

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