Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Tom Hunt, Steve Simon, ...

Summary

The court affirmed the denial of the petition because the individual taxpayers lacked taxpayer standing and the association consequently lacked associational standing. Taxpayer standing is limited to disputes in which unlawful public expenditures are central, and incidental expenditures connected to implementing a substantive law cannot create standing to challenge that law. Because the court resolved the case on standing grounds, it did not reach the legality of the voting provision or the intervention issue.