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· 8/10/2012

WildEarth Guardians v. Public Service Company

Citations

  • 690 F.3d 1174
  • 42 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 20171
  • 2012 WL 3243458
  • 75 ERC (BNA) 1651
  • 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 16770

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that “[a] broad request for ‘other’ relief cannot save [a] complaint” from mootness
  • noting that plaintiff’s request for injunctive relief is moot because their “wish [came] true” when defendants were no longer engaged in the complained-of conduct
  • noting that the plaintiff’s Clean Air Act civil penalties claim was moot in part because the defendant did not have a “history or pattern” of violations, and the particular violation alleged was unlikely to be repeated.
  • finding the plaintiff's claim for a beneficial mitigation project moot, but acknowledging a project could provide redress if it conferred a direct benefit on the plaintiff's members or \could deter [the defendant] from future violations\
  • “[W]ithout a live, concrete controversy, [a court] lack[s] jurisdiction to consider claims no matter how meritorious.”
  • “[W]ithout a live, concrete controversy, we lack jurisdiction to consider claims no matter how meritorious.”

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Judges: O'Brien, Tymkovich, Matheson

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