United States Eighth Circuit

Male taxpayers lacked standing to challenge a state statutory scheme for dispersing state and federal funds to assist battered women and victims of domestic abuse. Departments of state are treated as states, not counties, for purposes of taxpayer standing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/11/2002
• Published 09/11/2002

Judges

• BRIGHT, Circuit Judge., Before WOLLMAN, BRIGHT, and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John R. Graham, argued, Quebec, Canada (Mark A. Olson, Burnsville, MN, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark B. Livinger, argued, St. Paul, MN (Beverly Balos, Maury S. Landsman, Mike Hatch and Jennifer K. Park, on the brief), for appellee.