Topic: the rule in tennessee is well established that citizens and… · Go Syfert
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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 6 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from LaFollette Medical Center v. City of Lafollette.

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1 LaFollette Medical Center v. City of Lafollette Anchor
tennctapp · 2003
green “the rule in tennessee is well established that citizens and taxpayers are without standing to maintain a lawsuit to restrain or direct governmental action unless they first allege and establish that they will suffer some special injury not common to citizens and taxpayers genera…” 3
2 Parks v. Alexander
tennctapp · 1980
green “the generally acknowledged purpose of this requirement of special damage or private harm to the individual rests in the public policy of protecting public corporations from a profusion of suits.” 3

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