Environmental
Feb. 10, 2000
GREENS
By Iryna A. Kwasny and James R. Wheaton In Friends of the Earth Inc. v. Laidlaw , 120 S.Ct. 693 (2000) the Supreme Court used standing and mootness to halt Justice Antonin Scalia's 17-year offensive against citizen's suits. Since at least 1983 Scalia has tried to use standing as a weapon to crush citizen's suits that would protect the environment. In Laidlaw , the court decisively upheld the constitutionality of citizen standing to enforce environmental laws in nearly every context.
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