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Massachusetts v. Mellon 262 U.S. 447 (1923) was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court rejected the concept of taxpayer standing. The case was consolidated with Frothingham v. Mellon. The plaintiffs in the cases Frothingham and Massachusetts sought to prevent certain federal government expenditures which they considered to violate the Fifth Amendment.