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Valley Forge Coll. Vs. Americans United

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 12, 1982

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  2. Flast Vs. Cohen US Supreme Court · Jun 10, 1968
  3. United States Vs. Scrap US Supreme Court · Jun 18, 1973
  4. United States Vs. Richardson US Supreme Court · Jun 25, 1974
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  5. Warth Vs. Seldin US Supreme Court · Jun 25, 1975
  6. Baker Vs. Carr US Supreme Court · Mar 26, 1962
  7. Sierra Club Vs. Morton US Supreme Court · Apr 19, 1972
  8. Marbury Vs. Madison US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1803
  9. Fairchild Vs. Hughes US Supreme Court · Feb 27, 1922
  10. Valley Forge Coll. v. Americans
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  11. United - 454 U.S. 464 (1982) U.S. Supreme Court Valley Forge Coll. v. Americans
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  12. United, 454 U.S. 464 (1982) Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans
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  13. District Court dismissed the complaint on the ground that respondents lacked standing to sue as taxpayers under Flast v. Cohen
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  14. an exercise of Congress' authority conferred by the Taxing and Spending Clause, but by the Property Clause. Cf. Flast v. Cohen
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  15. App. to Pet. for Cert. A42. The court found that respondents lacked standing to sue as taxpayers under Flast v. Cohen
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  16. Appeals for the Third Circuit, which reversed the judgment of the District Court by a divided vote. Americans United v. U.S
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  17. All members of the court agreed that respondents lacked standing as taxpayers to challenge the conveyance under Flast v. Cohen
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  18. He therefore concluded that their standing to contest the transfer was barred by this Court's decisions in Schlesinger v. Reservists
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  19. Committee to Stop the War, 418 U. S. 208 (1974), and United States v. Richardson
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  20. Liverpool S.S. Co. v. Commissioners
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  21. Chicago & Grand Trunk R. Co. v. Wellman
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  22. subsumes a blend of constitutional requirements and prudential considerations, see Warth v. Seldin
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  23. that the Court itself has erected and which were not compelled by the language of the Constitution. See Flast v. Cohen
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  24. Gladstone, Realtors v. Village
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  25. Simon v. Eastern
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  26. conversion of courts of the United States into judicial versions of college debating forums. As we said in Sierra Club v. Morton
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  27. While the propriety of such action by a federal court has been recognized since Page 454 U. S. 474 Marbury v. Madison
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  28. Blair v. United
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  29. Association of Data Processing Service Orgs. v. Camp
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  30. of Bellwood, 441 U.S. at 441 U. S. 100 (quoting Warth v. Seldin
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  31. As a result, our discussion Page 454 U. S. 477 must begin with Frothingham v. Mellon
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  32. U. S. 447 (1923) (decided with Massachusetts v. Mellon
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  33. sufficient to confer standing, even though the plaintiff contributes to the public coffers as a taxpayer. In Doremus v. Board
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  34. Id. at 342 U. S. 433 -434 (quoting Frothingham v. Mellon
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  35. U. S. 436 (Douglas, J., dissenting). The Court again visited the problem of taxpayer standing in Flast v. Cohen
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  36. id. at 392 U. S. 104 . The Court distinguished Frothingham v. Mellon
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  37. Id. at 392 U. S. 102 . See Schlesinger v. Reservists
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  38. Frothingham principle ought to be applied should have been erased by this Court's recent decisions in United States v. Richardson
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  39. U. S. 166 (1974), and Schlesinger v. Reservists
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  40. Schlesinger v. Reservists
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  41. to require that the Page 454 U. S. 483 Government be administered according to law. . . .' Fairchild v. Hughes
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  42. U. S. 186 , 369 U. S. 208 (1962). See Schlesinger v. Reservists
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  43. not retreat from our earlier holdings that standing may be predicated on noneconomic injury. See, e.g., United States v. SCRAP
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  44. The federal courts were simply not constituted as ombudsmen of the general welfare. Page 454 U. S. 488 V The
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  45. U.S. Supreme Court Valley Forge Coll. v. Americans
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  46. Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans
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  47. the Property Clause. Cf. Flast v. Cohen
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  48. Americans United v. U.S
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  49. and United States v. Richardson
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  50. of the Constitution. See Flast v. Cohen
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