Coal Operators and Associates, Inc. Phelps Coal and Land Co. And Roy Seagraves v. Bruce Babbitt, in His Official Capacity as Secretary of the Interior

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “unless the Act creates a duty by the [defendant] to plaintiffs, mandamus will not lie”
• explaining courts should address standing before reaching the substantive question of a 12(b)(6) motion
• “[The district court] need not have reached this substantive question because plaintiffs failed to establish that they have standing to sue, which is a jurisdictional requirement.”
• “[S]tanding to sue is a jurisdictional requirement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).