Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation
United States Supreme Court
497 U.S. 871 (1990)
Relevant factsFree
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), acting under delegated authority from the Secretary of the Interior (defendant), operated a "land withdrawal review program" that the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) (plaintiff) challenged as violating federal land and environmental laws; NWF submitted member affidavits, four of which alleged standing based on harm from the program itself rather than any specific, discrete agency action, and the Supreme Court granted certiorari to consider the standing question.
IssueFree
Whether an organization's standing to challenge individual agency actions under section 702 of the APA confers standing to challenge an agency's broad program as a whole.
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