Allen v. Wright

Summary

The Court held that the parents of Black public-school children lacked Article III standing to challenge the IRS's tax-exemption practices for racially discriminatory private schools. Their asserted stigmatic injury was not judicially cognizable because they were not personally denied equal treatment, and their claimed injury to desegregated education was not fairly traceable to the IRS conduct because it depended on speculative decisions by schools, parents, and other third parties. The Court therefore reversed the Court of Appeals and vacated its injunction.