Norton v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance

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Norton v. S. Utah Wilderness Alliance
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 29, 2004 Decided June 14, 2004
Full case name	Gale Norton, Secretary of the Interior, et al. v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance et al.
Docket no.	03-101
Citations	542 U.S. 55 (more) 124 S. Ct. 2373; 159 L. Ed. 2d 137
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinion
Majority	Scalia, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
Administrative Procedure Act 702, 704, 706.

Norton v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 542 U.S. 55 (2004), was a Supreme Court case that held that although the Administrative Procedure Act says that a person may challenge an agency's failure to act, this provision essentially just carries forward the writ of mandamus. Thus an agency cannot be compelled to act unless there is some non-discretionary, discrete act. Therefore, in this case, an interest group could not challenge an agency's failure to "act so as to preserve the wilderness" in accordance with the statute.