FULANI v. LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUC. FUND

No. 728, Docket 88-6243.

882 F.2d 621 (1989)

Dr. Lenora B. FULANI, Lenora B. Fulani's Committee for Fair Elections, and Virginia Sinclair, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND, League of Women Voters of the United States, League of Women Voters of the City of New York Education Fund, Inc., James Baker, III, Secretary of the Treasury, and Roscoe Egger, Jr., Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 2, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur R. Block, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Brooksley Born, Washington, D.C. (Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for defendants-appellees League of Women Voters Educ. Fund; League of Women Voters of the U.S.; and League of Women Voters of the City of New York Educ. Fund, Inc.

Paul K. Milmed, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City (Rudolph W. Giuliani, U.S. Atty. S.D.N.Y., Nancy Kilson, Asst. U.S. Atty., of counsel), for Federal defendants-appellees.

Before VAN GRAAFEILAND, CARDAMONE, and PIERCE, Circuit Judges.


PIERCE, Circuit Judge:

Appellants appeal from so much of a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Sweet, J.) as denied their motion to compel the government to revoke appellees' tax-exempt status under 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3).1 We hold that appellant Fulani did have standing to challenge the tax-exempt status of appellees. However, since we agree with the district court that appellant failed...

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