Friends of the Earth, Blue-Water Network Division v. United States Department of the Interior

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that an injury has been alleged where a declaration identifies “specific areas” of affected national parks, such as specific hiking trails, but has not been alleged where a declaration “simply contains a list of parks and a list of general injuries”
• noting that it is not the Court’s role “to connect the dots and assume that an affiant has sworn to things that are not stated in the affidavit”
• finding that, for the court to compel action, “the thing to be compelled must be a ‘discrete action’” (quoting Norton v. S. Utah Wilderness Alliance, 542 U.S. 55, 63 (2004))
• finding 10 that demanding unauthorized debt amount in letter violated section 1692f(1)
• executive order containing “shall from time to time” language “requires monitoring and appropriate response, which [defendant] does”
• “[s]ection 706(1) empowers a court only to compel an agency to perform a ministerial or non-discretionary act”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).