Answering The Complaint

A. Justiciability

1.
The Supreme Court and lower federal courts will only hear justiciable cases, i.e., cases appropriate for federal adjudication on the merits.

2. Sources of Justiciability
Standards The conditions necessary for justiciability are derived either from interpretations of the Article III, § 2 requirement that there be a “case or controversy,” or from general Supreme Court policies developed apart from the Constitution.