Paul v. Blake

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a taxpayer had standing to challenge the county’s authority to issue ad valorem tax exemptions that violated specific limitations imposed by the Florida Constitution
• \A taxpayer may institute such a suit without a showing of special injury if he attacks ... taxing or spending authority on the ground that it exceeds specific limitations imposed on the... taxing or spending power by the ... Florida Constitution.\
• “[I]t has long been recognized that in a representative democracy the public’s representatives in government should ordinarily be relied on to institute the appropriate legal proceedings to prevent the unlawful exercise of the state or county’s taxing and spending power.”
• \A taxpayer may institute such a suit without a showing of special injury if he attacks ... taxing or spending authority on the ground that it exceeds specific limitations imposed on the... taxing or spending power by the ... Florida Constitution.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).