Sublime

industry has

courts have the capacity to act where other institutions are politically unwilling or structurally unable to proceed.

In the environmental field

"serves as a catalyst, not a usurper, of the legislative process"

the positions of unpopular and politically weak groups, denied access to and influence with administrative, executive, and legislative branches, must be taken seriously by the courts.

There is room, then, for courts to effectively correct the pathologies of the political process.

self-respect

courts can point the way to doing what is "right."

systematically relied on courts to delay change.