PESTICIDE RULING MAY PROMPT HIGH COURT REVIEW OF LIMITS ON 'STANDING'

March 10, 2006
A new ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit -- which has jurisdiction over federal regulations -- could establish what legal experts say are unprecedented limits on environmentalists' standing to sue over federal rules, possibly pointing the way to a Supreme Court challenge . The decision upholding an EPA regulation of an ozone-depleting pesticide is the latest in a series of recent rulings and administrative actions in the D.C. Circuit that have blocked activists...


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