151222P.pdf   02/22/2016  Higgins Electric, Inc.  v.  O'Fallon Fire Protection Dist.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-1222
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Bye and Benton, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil rights.Plaintiff Higgins had standing to bring this 
   civil action alleging the award of a bid violated its civil rights; the 
   plaintiff union did not have standing to pursue relief on behalf of its 
   members because its claim for compensatory damages would be peculiar to 
   the individualized member concerned and both the fact and extent of injury 
   would require individualized proof; plaintiff Higgins failed to state an 
   equal protection claim as the defendant district explicitly reserved the 
   right to award the contact in its best interest and to select a bidder 
   other than the lowest; for the same reason, plaintiff Higgins's due 
   process claim failed; plaintiff Higgins failed to provide any plausible 
   argument for how the district interfered with its ability to associate 
   with the union or its members, and its First Amendment freedom of 
   association claim was properly dismissed.