Gibson v. 526 W. 158th St. Hous. Dev. Fund Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “ozone causes annual crop losses of $2 to $3 billion per year”
• rejecting notion that endangered species of fly found only in California was “thing in interstate commerce,” in action challenging constitutionality of “taking” provision of ESA
• analogizing treatment of the regulation of destruction of endangered species to the ESA to regulation of destruction of the natural landscape under the Surface Mining Act
• \A class of activities can substantially affect interstate commerce regardless of whether the activity at issue--in this case the taking of endangered species--is commercial or noncommercial.\
• \A class of activities can substantially affect interstate commerce regardless of whether the activity at issue--in this case the taking of endangered species--is commercial or noncommercial.\
• “In the aggregate ... we can be certain that the extinction of species and the attendant decline in biodiversity will have a real and predictable effect on interstate commerce.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).