Cantrell v. City Of Long Beach

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that plaintiffs had standing to challenge the adequacy of the Navy’s final EIS even though they could not show a revised EIS would result in a different reuse plan for the Naval Station
• holding that plaintiffs “seeking to enforce a procedural right under NEPA to protect their concrete interests” had standing, even though they could not “establish that a revised EIS would result in a different” course of action
• holding plaintiff alleging procedural injury “need not show the substantive environmental harm is imminent”
• “If that were not so, there 18 would not be Article III standing in most diversity cases, including run-of-the-mill contract and 19 property disputes.”
• “[A]lthough the birdwatchers may well have 24 standing under California law to bring their suit in state court, that does not help them here.”
• “[T]he question is not whether the precise relief sought at the time the application for an injunction was filed is still available. The question is whether there can be 11 any effective relief.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).