Legal Opinion
Chenoweth, Helen v. Clinton, William J.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 2, 1999No. 98-5095PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge GINSBURG.
Opinion concurring in the judgment filed by Circuit Judge TATEL.
GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:
Appellants Helen Chenoweth, Bob Schaffer, Don Young, and Richard W. Pombo, all of whom are Members of the United States House of Representatives, sued to enjoin implementation of President Clinton’s American Heritage Rivers Initiative (AHRI). They claimed the President’s creation of the program by executive order exceeded his statutory and constitutional authority. Characterizing the Representatives’ claim as a “generalized grievance[ ] about the…
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