Franchise Tax Bd. of Cal. v. Alcan Aluminium Ltd.

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• suggesting shareholder standing is related to prudential concerns, not Article III
• generally, under federal law, a plaintiff may assert only his or her own legal rights and not those of another
• a plaintiff “cannot rest his claim to relief on the legal rights or interests of third parties”
• parent must demonstrate some injury to itself, independent of the injury to its subsidiary
• federal court might be open if California courts actually refuse to hear constitutional claims
• threat of relatively small financial injury sufficient to confer Article III standing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).