From: Bill Lucy 

In article <39240e40$1{at}w3.nls.net>, si{at}wvi.com says...
http://www.aclu.org/news/pressind.html certainly has the phrase
> "filed a lawsuit" in it once or twice

That's bad phrasing on their part. The ACLU, and its components (like the
Voting Rights Project) don't have standing to file a civil rights action.
They may, at the request of an individual or a group, file the papers on
behalf of the parties harmed.


... now, if you want to get specific,
> the example I'm looking at says, "The Voting Rights Project of the American
> Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit..."  That isn't even one degree
> of separation in my book.

Someone must claim to be harmed. The "Voting Rights Project"
itself could not be harmed by discriminatory election methodologies.

Put another way, an attorney cannot file a lawsuit just because she doesn't
like something, unless she is the one who is harmed.

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