Opinion ID: 2628312
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 8

Heading: Holland

Text: Waste Connections contends that Holland does not have standing to sue because he has died during the course of this appeal and only owned a life estate in the property that the petition alleges to be implicated. The petition states that Holland owns a life estate in 400 acres in Kingman County ... directly north of the proposed Plumb Thicket landfill and that this property contains a pond that drains a portion of the proposed Plumb Thicket landfill site. The petition further states that this property and its water supply can and will be irreparably harmed by the improper permitting, development and operation of the Plumb Thicket landfill. From the face of the petition, Holland demonstrated that he had a sufficient interest in the outcome of this case to have standing to sue individually. If it is true that Holland has died and only had a life estate in that property, it may be that he (or his estate) no longer has a justiciable interest in this controversy. Given the procedural posture of the case before us, however, we hold that Holland should not be dismissed from the case for lack of standing on the basis of the petition alone, though the district court may determine during the course of the case that his estate no longer has a cognizable interest in the outcome.