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Sierra Club v. Morton

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Limited by some courts
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
405 U.S. 727
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
125 of 125
Treatment dates
1973
Limited by some courts
At least one reviewed court has limited this case’s holding to narrower facts or a narrower rule. No reviewed court has overruled it. Sierra Club v. Morton has been limited on associational standing. All 125 flagged citations have been read.
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Aguayo v. Richardson declined to extend Sierra Club's statement about an organization representing injured members to a Civil Rights Act claim. Most other courts applied its requirement that a plaintiff show its own concrete injury. The confirmed limit is listed below; state courts' separate choices for their own law are also listed below.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

125 citations to Sierra Club v. Morton sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

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  • The Second Circuit confined Sierra Club's organizational standing statement to review of federal officers' actions and declined to extend it to an organization's Civil Rights Act claim for its members' rights.

    Aguayo v. Richardson · Second Circuit · filed

    While the Court said in Sierra Club v. Morton, supra, 405 U.S. at 739, 92 S.Ct. at 1368, "[i]t is clear that an organization whose members are injured may represent those members in a proceeding for judicial review," followed by a citation to Button, we think this must be limited to the issue there sub judice, standing to seek review of the action of federal officers, and not as broadening the standing of organizations as plaintiffs under the Civil Rights Act.
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