Massachusetts v. Mellon

How courts have described this case

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• emphasizing that “it is no part of [a state’s] duty or power to enforce [its citizens’] rights in respect of their relations with the federal government”
• “while the state, under some circumstances, may sue in that capacity for protection of its citizens (Missouri v. Illinois, 180 U.S. 208, 241 [21 S.Ct. 331, 343, 45 L.Ed. 497]
• also known as Frothingham v. Mellon
• popularly known as Frothing-ham v. Mellon

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).