· 9/1/2004
Nuclear Energy Institute, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency
Citations
- 373 F.3d 1251
- 362 U.S. App. D.C. 204
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- advising that when a court reviews an agency’s evaluation of “scientific data within its technical expertise,” its review should be “extremely deferential”
- “[Requiring a party to participate in further administrative or judicial proceedings is not a hardship sufficient to outweigh a determination that an issue is unfit for review.”
- finding standing where, although one alleged injury might not occur “for thousands of years,” another injury allegedly would occur very soon
- finding standing where, although one alleged injury might not occur “for thousands of years,” another injury would allegedly occur very soon
- “[R]equiring a party to participate in further administrative or judicial proceedings is not a hardship sufficient to outweigh a determination that an issue is unfit for review.”
- standing where member alleged hazardous waste would “contaminate his community’s ground-water supplies”
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Edwards, Henderson, Per Curiam, Tatel
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