County of Cook Ex Rel. Rifkin v. Bear Stearns & Co.

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• taxpayer standing to prevent misapplication of public funds, “based upon the tax-payers’ equitable ownership of such funds and their liability to replenish the public treasury for the deficiency which would be caused by the misappropriation” [internal quotation marks omitted]

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