· 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
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- 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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