National Park Service v. National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States · ¶11

Nor is it clear what would remain of Article III’s concrete- and-particularized injury requirement if we were to extend our case law in the manner the Trust now suggests. Perhaps nearly any government action or project offends someone’s sensibilities. And adopting the Trust’s “unprecedented and limitless” view that offense alone suffices to establish a concrete and particularized injury would seemingly usher in a world where “virtually every citizen had standing to challenge virtually every government action that they do not like—an approach to standing that this Court has consistently rejected as flatly inconsistent with Article III.” Alliance, 602 U. S., at 391–392. Absent some considerable revision to our existing standing doctrine, then, the government is likely to succeed on the merits.

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