Massachusetts v. Mellon

Massachusetts v. Mellon Frothingham
George Sutherland

Syllabus

Frothingham v. Mellon and Massachusetts v. Mellon, 262 U.S. 447 (1923), were two consolidated cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the court rejected the concept of taxpayer standing. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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Court Documents

Opinion of the Court

United States Supreme Court

262 U.S. 447

Massachusetts v. Mellon Frothingham

Argued: May 3 and 4, 1923. --- Decided: June 4, 1923

Mr. Solicitor General Beck, of Washington, D. C., for Mellon and others.

[Argument of Counsel from pages 448-459 intentionally omitted]

Messrs. Alexander Lincoln and J. Weston Allen, both of Boston, Mass., for Massachusetts.

[Argument of Counsel from pages 459-475 intentionally omitted]

Messrs. Wm. L. Rawls and George Arnold Frick, both of Baltimore, Md., and William H. Lamar and Lucius Q. C. Lamar, both of Washington, D. C., for Frothingham.

[Argument of Counsel from pages 475-478 intentionally omitted]

Mr. Justice SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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