California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Brown v. Superior Court of Alameda Cnty., 132 Cal.Rptr.3d 448, 199 Cal.App.4th 971 (Cal. App. 2011):
11 "A facial challenge to the ... validity of a statute ... considers only the text of the measure itself, not its application to ... particular circumstances of an individual. [Citation.] ... [] An as applied challenge ... contemplates analysis of the facts of a particular case or cases to determine the circumstances in which the statute ... has been applied and to consider whether in those particular circumstances the application deprived the individual to whom it was applied of a protected right." (Tobe v. City of Santa Ana (1995) 9 Cal.4th 1069, 1084, 40 Cal.Rptr.2d 402, 892 P.2d 1145.)
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