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Flast Vs. Cohen

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 10, 1968

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  17. U.S. 83 (1968) U.S. Supreme Court Flast v. Cohen
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  18. U.S. 83 (1968) Flast v. Cohen
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  19. and requested the convening of a three-judge court. A three-judge court ruled, on the authority of Frothingham v. Mellon
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  20. against the abuse of legislative power, i.e., the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Frothingham v. Mellon
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  21. Page 392 U. S. 85 MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court. In Frothingham v. Mellon
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  22. lacked standing to maintain the action. District Judge Frankel, who considered the motion, recognized that Frothingham v. Mellon
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  23. The decision in Zemel v. Rusk
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  24. The Court noted in Zemel v. Rusk
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  25. U.S. at 381 U. S. 6 . See also Florida Lime Growers v. Jacobsen
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  26. Allen v. Grand
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  27. a litigant asserting only his status as a taxpayer has standing to maintain a suit in a federal court in Frothingham v. Mellon
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  28. to the practices of the courts of Westminster when the Constitution was adopted. Joint Anti-Fascist Committee v. McGrath
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  29. prescribed by the Constitution and confines federal courts to the role assigned them by Article III. See Muskrat v. United
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  30. U. S. 249 , 346 U. S. 255 (1953). For example, in his concurring opinion in Ashwander v. Tennessee
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  31. the rules of self-governance articulated purely constitutional grounds for decision. See, e.g., Massachusetts v. Mellon
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  32. Chicago & Grand Trunk R. Co. v. Wellman
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  33. Aetna Life Insurance Co. v. Haworth
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  34. more general than, the rule that federal courts will not entertain friendly suits, Chicago & Grand Trunk R. Co. v. Wellman
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  35. supra, or those which are feigned or collusive in nature, United States v. Johnson
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  36. upon whether the party raises an Establishment Clause claim or a claim under the Free Exercise Clause. See McGowan v. Maryland
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  37. This requirement is consistent with the limitation imposed upon state-taxpayer standing in federal courts in Doremus v. Board
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  38. The allegations of the taxpayer in Frothingham v. Mellon
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  39. our jurisdiction on direct appeal, the lateness of the claim is irrelevant to our consideration of it. United States v. Griffin
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  40. a three-judge court is that the constitutional question presented be substantial. See Idlewild Bon Voyage Liquor Corp. v. Epstein
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  41. of the constitutional attack made by appellants on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. See Flast v. Gardner
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  42. the Court accepted jurisdiction in taxpayer suits without passing directly on the standing question. Wilson v. Shaw
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  43. Commercial Trust Co. v. Miller
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  45. Muskrat v. United
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  47. Tileston v. Ullman
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  48. Frothingham v. Mellon
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  49. and Public Papers of John Jay 486-489 (1891), and the rule has been adhered to without deviation. See United States v. Fruehauf
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  50. palpably unconstitutional conduct as providing funds for the construction of churches for particular sects. See Flast v. Gardner
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