I. Arizona provides a dollar-for-dollar tax credit for contributions to school tuition organizations (STOs)
---tax credit of $500 per individual or $1000 per married couple
---these tax credits are very popular with an estimated total of $50 million per annum
---STOs are non-profits that use these contributions to fund
scholarships for students attending private schools, many of which are
religious
---Respondents sued as taxpayers who claim that the tax credit program violates the Establishment Clause
II. Taxpayer Standing: Do state taxpayers have Art. III standing to
challenge a tax credit program such as Arizona's in federal courts?
The web log for Prof. Duncan's Constitutional Law Classes at Nebraska Law-- "[U]nder our Constitution there can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race. That concept is alien to the Constitution's focus upon the individual. In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American. " -----Justice Antonin Scalia If you allow the government to take your liberty during times of crisis, it will create a crisis whenever it wishes to take your liberty.
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I. Tinker A student's right to speak (even on controversial subjects such as war) in the cafeteria, the playing field, or "on the...
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Monday August 28 : Handout on Moore v Harper (PDF has been emailed to you); Originalism vs. the "Living Constitution": Strau...
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Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop (art by Joshua Duncan) "We may not shelter in place when the C...
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