BASE Jumpers’ Suit to Overturn National Parks Ban Dismissed (1)

A lawsuit from a group of BASE jumpers seeking to overturn a decades-old ban on the extreme sport in US national parks was dismissed Thursday by a federal court.

Judge Charles Eskridge in Houston ruled that the BASE jumpers—athletes who hurl themselves from tall cliffs and structures with parachutes or specialized “wing suits"—lacked legal standing to pursue their challenge to the National Park Service’s longstanding “Aerial Delivery Rule” that prohibits BASE jumping. The judge found that even if the jumpers were able to wipe the ban off the books, they “still wouldn’t be able to lawfully BASE jump in national ...