1000 Friends of Wisconsin Inc. v. United States Department of Transportation

The court holds that Wisconsin satisfies two components of standing, injury and causation, but not the third, redressability. According to the court, because the United States Department of Transportation (US-DOT) did not appeal the district court’s judgment vacating the record of decision, it remains bound by the judgment. From that premise, the court concludes that the injury the judgment inflicts on Wisconsin—which the. court describes as the loss of federal funds for a state highway project—could not be redressed by our reversing the judgment.

That conclusion, in my view, is incorrect.…