June 10, 1968
Florence Flast and others sued Wilber Cohen, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, because HEW was spending funds on religious schools in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The District Court had ruled that Flast lacked standing to sue. The Supreme Court, in Flast v. Cohen, reversed that ruling, holding that taxpayers did have standing to sue the government for spending money on unconstitutional practices.
