Eastern Missouri Laborers District Council v. St. Louis County

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• overruling the test enunciated in Brock v. City of St. Louis, 724 S.W.2d 721 (Mo.App.1987)
• “Regardless of an action’s merits, unless the parties to the action have proper standing, a court may not entertain the action.”
• expenditure of public funds to pay for construction contract allegedly awarded in violation of competitive bidding rules sufficient to confer standing on a taxpayer
• “if the expenditure is not contemplated by the enabling legislation, it is illegal and should be enjoined”
• “The right of a taxpayer, on behalf of himself and other taxpayers similarly situated, to bring an action to enjoin the illegal expenditure of public funds cannot be questioned.”
• “The right of a taxpayer, on behalf of himself and other taxpayers similarly situated, to bring an action to enjoin the illegal expenditure of public funds cannot be questioned.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).