Sixth Circuit -- Nat'l Air Traffic Controllers v. Sec., Dep't of Transportation

Nat'l Air Traffic Controllers v. Sec., Dep't of Transportation

Suit by air controllers challenging the privatization of a certain classification of air traffic control towers.

Held - a statute which implicitly legitimized the privatization is on-point, as it should be broadly construed.

Standing - as none of the individual plaintiffs can now claim a harm, and the organizational standing was predicted on a question of law that has been resolved, earlier court decisions holding that plaintiffs had Article III and prudential standing do not bind as the law of the case.  Properly moot.