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Type
Opinion
Author
Jeffrey S. Sutton
Filed
Oct. 5, 2018
Case
Harold Vonderhaar v. Village of Evendale, Ohio
Case status
Decided

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SUTTON, Circuit Judge. Advisory opinions are "ghosts that slay." Felix Frankfurter, A Note on Advisory Opinions , 37 Harv. L. Rev. 1002 , 1008 (1924). When a party does not have standing to bring a constitutional challenge, he is essent…

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