Question

Standing: jack and maggie turton bought a house in jefferson county, idaho, located directly across the street from a gravel pit. a few years later, the county converted the pit to a landfill. the landfill accepted many kinds of trash that cause harm to the environment, including major appliances, animal carcasses, containers with hazardous content warnings, leaking car batteries, and waste oil the turtons complained to the county, but the count did nothing. the turtons then filed a lawsuit against the county alleging violations of federal environmental laws pertaining to groundwater contamination and other pollution. do the turtons have standing to sue? why or why not?

Answer 1

The Turtons have remaining to sue. Since the Turtons have an adequate stake in a controversy, and they have experienced that the environment caused by the landfill. Likewise the trash influences nature as well as impact the well being of the general population lived around. The debate is genuine and generous too. So the Turtons have standing to sue.