page_title: United States v. Richardson
section_title: Opinion of the Court
hierarchical_section_title: United States v. Richardson / Opinion of the Court
caption_attribution_description: English: Chief Justice Warren Burger Source: [1]
context_page_description: United States v. Richardson, 418 U.S. 166, was a United States Supreme Court case concerning standing in which the Court held a taxpayer's interest in government spending was generalized, and too "undifferentiated" to confer Article III standing to challenge a law which exempted Central Intelligence Agency funding from Article I, Section 9 requirements that such expenditures be audited and reported to the public.
context_section_description: Chief Justice Warren Burger delivered the opinion of the Court, which found that Richardson lacked standing to challenge the Act. noting that any "impact on him  is plainly undifferentiated and "common to all members of the public."  This failed to meet the standard enunciated in Flast v. Cohen and its predecessor, Frothingham v. Mellon. Burger concluded:
  As our society has become more complex, our numbers more vast, our lives more varied, and our resources more strained, citizens increasingly request the intervention of the courts on a greater variety of issues than at any period of our national development. The acceptance of new categories of judicially cognizable injury has not eliminated the basic principle that, to invoke judicial power, the claimant must have a "personal stake in the outcome, "in short, something more than "generalized grievances,"...
caption: Chief Justice Burger delivered the opinion of the Court.
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