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013210P.pdf   09/11/2002  Scott Booth  v.  Sheryl Ramstad Hvass
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  01-3210
   District of Minnesota   
   Civil Case - standing. Male taxpayers lacked standing to 
   challenge 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.