Distributive Justice: Attitudes Towards Access in Environmental Citizen Suits
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2016-05
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The Ohio State University
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This thesis examines the congressional chronology of the drafting and amending of the citizen suit provision and its adoption across three statutes, and analyzes the relationships between factors that influence judicial decisions on access and outcomes in federal district courts and courts of appeals. It hypothesizes that the ideological preferences of opinion-writing judges are positively related to decisions on access claims, and examines how the relationship is affected by the identity of the petitioner and the year of decision. Through the examination of these relationships, this study demonstrates the effects that institutions and their actors have on the realization of environmental policy in the United States.
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law, federal courts, environmental policy, judicial behavior