Karcher v. May

Karcher v. May
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 6, 1987 Decided December 1, 1987
Full case name	Karcher, Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly, et al. v. May et al
Docket no.	85-1551
Citations	484 U.S. 72 (more) 108 S. Ct. 388; 98 L. Ed. 2d 327; 1987 U.S. LEXIS 5027
Case history
Prior	May v. Cooperman, 572 F. Supp. 1561 (D.N.J. 1983); on reconsideration, 578 F. Supp. 1308 (D.N.J. 1984); affirmed, 780 F.2d 240 (3d Cir. 1985).
Holding
Appellants intervened and participated throughout this lawsuit only in their official capacities as presiding officers on behalf of the state legislature. They no longer hold those offices, and the authority to pursue the lawsuit on behalf of the legislature has passed to their successors under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 43(c)(1).
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia
Case opinions
Majority	O'Connor, joined by Rehnquist, Brennan, Marshall, Blackmun, Stevens, Scalia
Concurrence	White
Laws applied
U.S. Const. Art. III, Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 43(c)(1)

Karcher v. May, 484 U.S. 72 (1987), was a school prayer case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the former presiding officers of the New Jersey legislature did not have Article III standing to appeal a case, as that standing had passed on to their legislative successors.^[1]