Legal Opinion
United States v. City of New York
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 22, 1992No. 1708, Docket 92-6074PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALKER, Circuit Judge:
This case presents an intriguing question of first impression in this circuit and one not addressed below: do municipal taxpayers have standing to challenge the legality of municipal expenditures without establishing that a declaration that the expenditures are illegal will likely yield any savings to the taxpayer? Because controlling Supreme Court precedent grants a unique status to municipal taxpayer actions, we hold that municipal taxpayers do have standing to challenge municipal expenditures even where there is no likelihood that resulting savings will inure to the…
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- Flast v. CohenSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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