Citizens Committee of Anne Arundel County, Inc. v. County Commissioners

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• concluding that taxpayer standing could not exist if “the taxpayers would be damaged by a discontinuance of the program rather than a continuance of it”
• taxpayers had no standing to challenge local laws authorizing gambling where licensing revenue derived by county exceeded costs of administration
• “In any event it is clear that the loss or damage the complaining taxpayers claim to have sustained has likewise been proportionately suffered by all other taxpayers in the county.”
• plaintiffs challenging laws authorizing licensed gambling failed to satisfy taxpayer standing because the remedy they sought, if granted, would not decrease their monetary burden as taxpayers
• plaintiffs challenging laws authorizing licensed gambling failed to satisfy taxpayer standing because the remedy they sought, if granted, would not decrease their monetary burden as taxpayers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).