Case Description
To pursue a claim as parens patriae for its citizens, the Supreme Court held that “The state must demonstrate (1) a quasi-sovereign interest and (2) “more . . . than injury to an identifiable group of individual residents.” The requisite quasi-sovereign interest may lie in the state’s interest in the physical and economic health and well-being of its citizens, or it may lie in the state’s interest in “not being discriminatorily denied its rightful status within the federal system.”