Allen v. Wright
United States Supreme Court
468 U.S. 737 (1984)
Relevant factsFree
Parents of Black public school children (plaintiffs) sued IRS officials (defendants), claiming the IRS's failure to deny tax-exempt status to racially segregated private schools stigmatized their children and impaired their ability to attend desegregated public schools by indirectly subsidizing segregated private schools; the district court dismissed for lack of standing, and the court of appeals reversed.
IssueFree
Whether, to have standing, plaintiffs must sufficiently allege a personally suffered distinct injury with a non-attenuated chain of causation linking that injury to the defendant's conduct.