California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Siskiyou Cnty. Water Users Ass'n v. Natural Res. Agency, C068829 (Cal. App. 2012):
"The ripeness requirement[] [is] a branch of the doctrine of justiciability, [which] prevents courts from issuing purely advisory opinions." (Pacific Legal Foundation v. California Coastal Com. (1982) 33 Cal.3d 158, 170.) It requires a set of facts that are no longer speculative, and the consideration of any hardship that would result in withholding judicial review of them. (Id. at p. 171.)
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