Litigants: | Havens Realty Corp. v. Coleman |
Arguedate: | December 1 |
Argueyear: | 1981 |
Decidedate: | February 24 |
Decideyear: | 1982 |
Fullname: | Havens Realty Corp. et al. v. Coleman et al. |
Usvol: | 455 |
Uspage: | 363 |
Majority: | Brennan |
Joinmajority: | unanimous |
Concurrence: | Powell |
Havens Realty Corp. v. Coleman, 455 U.S. 363 (1982), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that an organization may sue in its own right if it has been directly injured, for example through a "drain on the organization's resources", and that so-called "testers", individuals who sought to determine if a company was in violation of the law, may have standing in their own right.[1] [2]