The following excerpt is from In re Hydroxycut Mktg. & Sales v. Iovate Health Sci. Group, Inc., CASE NO. 09md2087 BTM (CAB), S.D. Cal. No. 09cv1088 (S.D. Cal. 2011):
(1962)). "[T]he plaintiff must have suffered an 'injury in fact' - an invasion of a legally protected interest which is (a) concrete and particularized, and (b) actual or imminent, not conjectural or hypothetical." Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555, 560 (1992) (citations, internal quotation marks, and footnote omitted). A "particularized" injury is one that "affect[s] the plaintiff in a personal and individual way." Id. at 560 n. 1.
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