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· 1/29/1988

National Wildlife Federation v. Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of the Interior

Citations

  • 839 F.2d 694
  • 268 U.S. App. D.C. 15
  • 18 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 20646
  • 98 Oil & Gas Rep. 453
  • 27 ERC (BNA) 1153
  • 1988 U.S. App. LEXIS 1392

How courts have described this case

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

  • recognizing that injury to “traditional economic interests [] will support a claim of standing”
  • recognizing that a plaintiff “need not show to a certainty” that relief will redress the injury
  • holding that Secretary of the Interior’s failure to re- promulgate national mining regulations remanded to him by the District Court rendered challenge to those particular regulations moot
  • “[sjome-thing that is due to a person by just claim, legal guarantee, or moral principle”
  • observing that the injury-in-fact requirement “is the core of standing” (citing Daughtrey v. Carter, 584 F.2d 1050, 1056 (D.C. Cir. 1978))
  • refusing to find the Secretary of the Interior’s withdrawal of a challenged regulation to be an exception to mootness

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Judges: Bader, Wald, Ginsburg, Silberman

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