In re Hooker’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “1) a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment of the issue to a coordinate political department; or 2) a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving it; or 3) the impossibility of deciding without an initial policy determination of a kind clearly for nonjudicial discretion; or 4) the impossibility of a court’s undertaking independent resolution without expressing lack of the respect due coordinate branches of government; or 5) an unusual need for unquestionable adherence to a political decision already made; or 6) the potentiality of embarrassment from multifarious pronouncements by various departments on one question.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ghane v. Mid-South Institute of Self Defense Shooting, Inc.

2. “state government was modeled after the federal system.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. American K-9 Detection Services, LLC and Hill Country Dog Center, Llc v. Latasha Freeman