Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Crown Central Petroleum Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• finding that an injury dependent on water passing through downstream lakes and encountering other flow sources is too attenuated to show geographic nexus without a supporting showing of proof
• stating that plaintiffs may satisfy the “fairly traceable” element of standing in part by producing “water samples showing the presence of a pollutant of the type discharged by the defendant upstream”
• finding plaintiffs’ claims too attenuated where they used a body of water “located three tributaries and 18 miles” downstream from the defendant’s refinery
• finding no error in the court’s dismissal óf a second complaint as duplicative
• \We emphasize that FOE offered no competent evidence that [the] discharges have made their way to Lake Palestine or would otherwise effect Lake Palestine.\ (emphasis added)
• no standing where defendant discharged storm-water runoff into creek 18 miles upstream of area in which plaintiff’s members had an interest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).