Sierra Club v. Morton
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The Fallout of the Sitation Community
Conservative view of the world is so atomized that we can just require that for a lawsuit to be legitimate, you need to have personally suffered some direct injury. To them, the idea that the Sierra Club could bring lawsuits related to the environment doesn't really compute because they've never thought about the public interest in their life. The general lay of the land is, yeah, trees could sue, but courts have decided they're not going to say who can stand for trees or for porpoises or whoever.
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