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{{Administrative law}}
 
'''Justiciability''' concerns the limits upon legal issues over which a court can exercise its judicial authority.<ref name=May>{{cite book |last=May |first=Christopher N. |coauthorsauthor2=Ides, Allan |title=Constitutional Law: National Power and Federalism |edition=4th |publisher=Aspen Publishers |year=2007 |location=New York, NY |pages= 97–99}}</ref> It includes, but is not limited to, the legal concept of [[Standing (law)|standing]], which is used to determine if the party bringing the suit is a party appropriate to establishing whether an actual adversarial issue exists.<ref>{{cite court |litigants=[http://supreme.justia.com/us/392/83/case.html Flast v. Cohen] |vol=392 |reporter=U.S. |opinion=83 |pinpoint=100 |court= |date=1968 |url=http://supreme.justia.com/us/392/83/case.html |quote=[W]hen standing is placed in issue in a case, the question is whether the person whose standing is challenged is a proper party to request an adjudication of a particular issue, and not whether the issue itself is justiciable. }}</ref> Essentially, justiciability in American law seeks to address whether a court possesses the ability to provide adequate resolution of the dispute; where a court feels it cannot offer such a final determination, the matter is not justiciable.
 
==In the United States==