Touching all the bases when a union wishes to initiate litigation on behalf of its members
An
organization such as a union wishing to file a claim on behalf of its members
must:
[1] establish that it has organizational standing to bring such claim;
[2]
show that at least one of its members would have standing to sue;
[3] that it
is representative of the organizational purposes it asserts; and
[4] that the
case would not require the participation of individual members.
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