Cite as: 528 U. S. 167 (2000)
Scalia, J., dissenting
at 68, n. 22 (quoting United States Parole Comm'n v. Geraghty, 445 U. S. 388, 397 (1980)).
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By uncritically accepting vague claims of injury, the Court has turned the Article III requirement of injury in fact into a "mere pleading requirement," Lujan, 504 U. S., at 561; and by approving the novel theory that public penalties can redress anticipated private wrongs, it has come close to "mak[ing] the redressability requirement vanish," Steel Co., supra, at 107. The undesirable and unconstitutional consequence of today's decision is to place the immense power of suing to enforce the public laws in private hands. I respectfully dissent.
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