LET THERE BE NO DOUBT---THE SECOND CIRCUIT JUST OPENED A NEW DOOR FOR ORGANZATIONS

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The reality of all this is starting to hit a number of the larger legal blogs and Facebook pages, as well as parental organizations.  Several local readers promise to send updates. SEE MORE BELOW.

THE SECOND CIRCUIT JUST OPENED A NEW DOOR FOR ORGANZATIONS--For more than fifty years, the Second Circuit followed a rule that made it harder for organizations in New York, Connecticut, and Vermont to challenge unconstitutional government conduct on behalf of their own members. That rule came from Aguayo v. Richardson, 473 F.2d 1090 (2d Cir. 1973), which held that an organization could not bring a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 merely because the constitutional rights of its members were being violated. 

In Defending Education v. Croton-Harmon Union Free School District, — F.4th —-, 2025 WL 5281079 (2d Cir. Sept. 15, 2026), the Second Circuit finally overruled that part of Aguayo and replaced it with the ordinary associational-standing framework established by the Supreme Court in Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission, 432 U.S. 333 (1977).

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