Sokoloff v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• \Consent decrees ... have characteristics both of contracts and of final judgments on the merits.\
• \[A] state may not sue [in its parens patriae capacity] to assert the rights of private individuals.\
• citizens are bound by a state's litigation of public rights

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