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overbreadth standing exception

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From 380 U.S. 479 - Dombrowski v. Pfister · 1965Most cited · 4,950 citing opinions

we have consistently allowed attacks on overly broad statutes with no requirement that the person making the attack demonstrate that his own conduct could not be regulated by a statute drawn with the requisite narrow specificity... We have fashioned this exception to the usual rules governing standing... because of the 'danger of tolerating, in the area of First Amendment freedoms, the existence of a penal statute susceptible of sweeping and improper application.