Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment

How courts have described this case

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

• confirming that the Court’s standing jurisprudence “derives from Article III and not Article II,” even when it has “an impact on Presidential powers”
• assessing for itself whether a plaintiff had standing before engaging in the merits of the lower court’s decision
• “It is firmly established in our cases that the absence of a valid (as opposed to arguable
• “Jurisdiction is [the] power to 9 declare the law, and when it ceases to exist, the only function remaining to the court is that of 10 announcing the fact and dismissing the cause.”
• “Dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction because 6 of the inadequacy of the federal claim is proper only when the claim is ‘so insubstantial, implausible 7 . . . or otherwise completely devoid of merit as not to involve a federal controversy.’”
• “It is firmly established in our cases that the absence of a valid (as opposed to arguable) cause of action does not implicate subject-matter jurisdiction, i.e., the courts’ statutory or constitutional power to adjudicate the case” [first and third emphasis added and second emphasis sic]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).