Opinion ID: 789130
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: The Judicial Review Bar

Text: 16 As noted above, DOE raises two jurisdictional arguments: first, that Appellants lack Article III standing; and second, that Congress deprived this Court of jurisdiction to review the composition of the committee. Supra pages 1154, 1155. Because, as we discuss below, we hold that Appellants lack Article III standing, we do not consider the question, never before raised in this Court, of whether judicial review is barred in this matter. We need not identify every ground for holding that a claim is not justiciable. Fourth Branch Assocs. (Mechanicville) v. FERC, 253 F.3d 741, 745 (D.C.Cir.2001) (quoting Indep. Petroleum Ass'n of America v. Babbitt, 235 F.3d 588, 594 (D.C.Cir.2001)). [W]e have no trouble dismissing a claim `based on one jurisdictional bar rather than another.' Id. (quoting Louisiana Envtl. Action Network v. Browner, 87 F.3d 1379, 1384 (D.C.Cir.1996)). See also New Jersey Television Corp. v. FCC, 393 F.3d 219, 220 (D.C.Cir.2004). Any statements by this Court on the question of the judicial review bar would be unnecessary dicta, which precedent and prudence counsel us to avoid.... Louisiana Envtl. Action Network, 87 F.3d at 1385.