O'NEILL v. Burns

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• holding that it is only when there is some clearly identified public purpose of primary, rather than incidental, benefit to the public that the state or one of its political subdivisions may disburse, loan, or pledge public funds or property to a nongovernmental entity
• There must be some clearly identified and concrete public purpose as the primary objective and a reasonable expectation that such purpose will be accomplished
• state or its subdivisions may disburse public funds to nongovernmental entities only where there is some clearly identified and concrete public purpose as primary objective and reasonable expectation that such purpose will be substantially and effectively accomplished

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