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· 3/29/1988

Gordon Taub v. Commonwealth of Kentucky, and Martha Layne Collins, in Her Official Capacity as Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Citations

  • 842 F.2d 912
  • 1988 U.S. App. LEXIS 3927

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that “state taxpayer-plaintiff must tie allegations of illegal expenditures to specific claim of direct and palpable injury threatened or suffered”
  • explaining municipal-taxpayer standing as based on the theory that such taxpayers suffer \a direct and palpable injury whenever tax revenues are misused \ (emphasis added)
  • involving an allegation that certain actions of Kentucky violated Article I, Section 10 and the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
  • municipal taxpayer standing recognized in a variety of cases not involving Establishment Clause challenges
  • municipal taxpayer standing recognized in a variety of cases not involving Establishment Clause challenges
  • distinguishing between state and municipal taxpayers

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Judges: Lively, Jones, Guy

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