United States Seventh Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit alleging violation of the Establishment Clause by employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, summary judgment for defendants is vacated and the case remanded with instructions to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction where plaintiffs lacked standing as taxpayers to allege Establishment Clause violations.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/17/2008
• Decided 08/05/2008
• Published 08/05/2008

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before RIPPLE, ROVNER and TINDER, 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:
  
• Erik C. Peterson, Office of the United States Attorney, Madison, WI, Lowell Sturgill (argued), Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.