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Sierra Club v. Morton

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CHAPTER

The Technicality of Standing

Every major Supreme Court case now is just brought by some organization with a vague ass name, funded by the Koch brothers. Justice Blackman files a dissent here and he brings us all up. He asks, quote, must our law be so rigid that we render ourselves helpless when the existing methods do not quite fit? And in order to build a 20 mile highway through Sequoia National Park, they're like, yeah, well, we'll just put a fucking highway through it. So who cares?

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