United States Third Circuit

In a suit alleging that the Solicitor of the City of Philadelphia overstepped his authority by entering into a private settlement agreement with several outdoor billboard companies to regulate the approval and placement of billboards in Philadelphia, dismissal for lack of standing is affirmed where: 1) plaintiffs-city council members did not have standing to assert claims based solely on alleged disobedience or flawed execution of legislation enacted by the council; 2) plaintiff-city resident did not have standing as a taxpayer; and 3) plaintiffs-community organizations failed to allege facts demonstrating that any of their members would have standing in their own right.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/10/2008
• Decided 08/12/2008
• Published 08/12/2008

Judges

• Before:  AMBRO, CHAGARES, and GREENBERG, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles C. Sweedler (argued), Levin, Fishbein, Sedran & Berman, Philadelphia, PA, Attorneys for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Elizabeth S. Campbell, Barbara W. Mather (argued), A. Michael Pratt, T. Joel Zuercher, Philadelphia, PA, Attorneys for Appellees.