Sons of Confederate Veterans v. Henry County Board of Commissioners (two Cases)

Summary

The court held that the Georgia Constitution requires a plaintiff invoking the judicial power to allege a cognizable injury, although in suits challenging a local government's violation of a public duty the injury may be generalized and shared by community stakeholders. A county citizen therefore had standing to seek injunctive relief concerning a planned monument removal, while the organizational plaintiffs lacked standing because they did not allege community-stakeholder status or another cognizable injury; the citizen's damages claim also failed because the statutory violation had not yet occurred. The court reversed the dismissal of the citizen's injunction claim and affirmed dismissal of the remaining claims.