Taxpayers supported by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Anti-Defamation League and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State have lost their challenge to a tuition tax credit for private and religious schools.

In a Georgia Supreme Court opinion released Monday, Justice Robert Benham ruled the taxpayers had not proven they had been harmed by the program and thus had no right to sue.

“Taxpayer status fails to demonstrate a special injury to their rights so as to create standing to challenge the program,” Benham wrote.