Summers v. Earth Island Inst.

In Summers v. Earth Island Inst., 555 U.S. 488, 490 (2009), a 5-4 decision written by Justice Antonin Scalia denied standing by a group of environmentalist organizations, which sued:

to prevent the United States Forest Service from enforcing regulations that exempt small fire-rehabilitation and timber-salvage projects from the notice, comment, and appeal process used by the Forest Service for more significant land management decisions. We must determine whether respondents have standing to challenge the regulations in the absence of a live dispute over a concrete application of those regulations.