STATE OF MINN. BY HUMPHREY v. Standard Oil Co.

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• stating that when the state acts in its quasi-sovereign capacity in a parens patriae action, “the state becomes, in effect, the embodiment of its citizens. A harm to the individual citizens becomes an injury to the state, and the state in turn becomes the plaintiff.”
• state can recover for overcharges of its citizens for petroleum products, where the prices charged allegedly violated federal regulations
• parens patriae standing is particularly appropriate where parties are unlikely to sue alleged violators themselves

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).