Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp
United States Supreme Court
397 U.S. 150, 90 S. Ct. 827, 25 L. Ed. 2d 184 (1970)
- Written by Jamie Milne, JD
Facts
The Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc., and Data Systems, Inc. (collectively, the organizations) (plaintiffs) sold data-processing services to businesses. The organizations brought suit in a United States district court to challenge a ruling by William Camp (defendant), the comptroller of the currency, holding that national banks could provide data-processing services to customers and other banks. Section 4 of the Bank Service Corporation Act of 1962 prohibited bank-service corporations from engaging in any activity other than performing bank services for banks. The organizations alleged that they had standing to challenge the comptroller’s ruling because (1) the entry of national banks into the data-processing market would result in future lost profits and (2) a national bank was already starting to perform data-processing services for two customers previously served by Data Systems. The district court held that the organizations did not have standing and dismissed the complaint. The court of appeals affirmed, and the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Douglas, J.)
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