The following excerpt is from Dugas v. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., Case No.: 3:16-cv-00014-GPC-BLM (S.D. Cal. 2016):
Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555, 559-60 (1992) (internal citations omitted). Because these elements are "not mere pleading requirements but rather an indispensable part of the plaintiff's case," Plaintiff bears the burden of proving "with the manner and degree of evidence required at the successive stages of litigation" that he has Article III standing. See id. at 561. At the pleading stage, general factual allegations of injury are sufficient for standing purposes because courts, on a motion to dismiss, will "presum[e] that general allegations embrace those specific facts that are necessary to support the claim." See Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 497 U.S. 871, 889 (1990).
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