Republican D.C. Circuit judges denied environmental plaintiffs standing four times as often as Democrats

Evidence

Finally, in 1999, the results of a fourth study concerning the likelihood of Democratic-versus Republican-appointed D.C. Circuit judges voting to deny an environmental plaintiff standing found that, during the 1990s, “Republican judges voted to deny standing to environmental plaintiffs in 79.2% of cases, while Democratic judges voted to deny standing to environmental plaintiffs in only 18.2% of cases.” — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 1069

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on the already-extracted claim about 1990s Supreme Court standing barriers; D.C. Circuit judges apply the same doctrine at the trial level. — connects to: Republican-appointed D.C. Circuit judges favor laxer regulation and Democratic appointees stricter regulation — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 1068