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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Section 10

Citation
Section 10
Parent Document
Yesler Terrace Community Council v. Cisneros, 37 F.3d 442 (1994)
Effective Date
1994-09-12

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We might well adopt a more relaxed standing requirement in cases where we know that some individuals within a large group will suffer an injury, but won’t ever be able to identify them with any certainty. One such situation might involve a group of people subjected to an increased risk of cancer because of an agency’s decision to site a toxic waste dump near their homes; some people within the group may contract cancer who otherwise would not have, but their identities will always remain a mystery. In such a case, it may make sense to accord standing to everyone in the affected group because the passage of time will not help us identify the injured group more precisely.