On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:16:49 GMT, Jose
wrote:

...and they have to allow you to sue them

That has always struck me as so odd. Why would they allow you to sue them?

The issue seems to be "standing." Wikipedia has a fairly terse article
with that title. It seems to say that you can sue the government in
Federal Court if you can show the court that you have been injured or
would be injured by something the government has done or wants to do,
but Congress can force the Court to take a case it doesn't want to
hear by passing an act for that specific purpose.

As a layman, I think this is different than ordinary tort law, where
the bar is set much lower.

Don