SUPREME COURT OPINION ON 'STANDING' IN ENVIRONMENTAL CASE

ORF: We in Otero County have asked the question as to what standing environmentalists and others who litigate to close forests to logging, public grazing and the designation of critical habitat for 'surrogate species' based on fraud and junk science.  This case is important as it relates to use of public lands, state sovereignty, and economic impact on counties in New Mexico and the American West.

 Justice Scalia, Opinion of the Court

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

PRISCILLA SUMMERS, et al., PETITIONERS v. 
EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE et al.

on writ of certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the ninth circuit

 " Respondents argue that they have standing to bring their challenge because they have suffered procedural injury, namely that they have been denied the ability to file comments on some Forest Service actions and will continue to be so denied. But deprivation of a procedural right without some concrete interest that is affected by the deprivation—a procedural rightin vacuo—is insufficient to create Article III standing. Only a “person who has been accorded a procedural right to protecthis concrete interests can assert that right without meeting all the normal standards for redressability and immediacy.”