· 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
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- 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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