The following excerpt is from Ziemba v. Rell, 409 F.3d 553 (2nd Cir. 2005):
The constitutional requirements of Article III standing are well known. "First, the plaintiff must have suffered an injury in factan 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, 112 S.Ct. 2130, 119 L.Ed.2d 351 (1992) (internal quotation marks, footnote, and citations omitted). "Second, there must be a causal connection between the injury and the conduct complained ofthe
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