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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: mph who wrote (82122)4/4/2010 9:59:35 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps  Read Replies (1) of 224728
 
The US Supreme Court has held that an individual taxpayer does not have standing to attack the validity of a law unless they can show some special harm. Just being a citizen and taxpayer does not give them standing to sue.

A significant economic injury or burden is sufficient to provide standing to sue, but in most situations a taxpayer does not have standing to challenge policies or programs that she is forced to support. In Frothingham v. Mellon, 288 F. 252 (C.A.D.C. 1923), the Supreme Court denied a federal taxpayer the right to challenge a federal program that she claimed violated the Tenth Amendment, which reserves certain powers to the states. The Court said that a party must show some "direct injury as the result of the statute's enforcement, and not merely that he suffers in some indefinite way common with people generally."

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