United States Seventh Circuit

Judgment of dismissal for lack of standing is vacated where plaintiffs-taxpayers have standing to challenge an executive-branch program, alleged to promote religion, that was financed by a congressional appropriation, even if the program was created entirely within the executive branch, as by Presidential executive order.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/13/2006
• Published 01/13/2006

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, RIPPLE, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard L. Bolton (argued), Boardman, Suhr, Curry & Field, Madison, WI, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lowell Sturgill (argued), Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, for for Defendants-Appellees.