its citizens with respect to the federal government, because “[i]n that field, it is the United States, and not the state, which represents them as parens patriae”); Coldsprings Township v. Kalkaska Cnty. Zoning Bd. of Appeals, 279 Mich.App. 25, 755 N.W.2d 553, 555 (2008) (explaining that “political subdivisions such as cities and counties, whose power is derivative and not sovereign, cannot sue as parens patriae ”); County of Lexington v. City of Columbia, 303 S.C. 300, 400 S.E.2d 146, 147 (1991) (“Generally, a county has the power to sue and be sued as a political body. As a political subdivision of the State, however, it lacks the sovereignty to maintain a suit under the doctrine of parens patriae”); Bd. of Cty. Comm’rs v. Denver Bd. of Water Comm’rs, 718 P.2d 235, 241 (Colo.1986) (<HOLDING>). Moreover, even if the doctrine of parens
holding that the sovereign immunity afforded to tribes extends to their governmental organizations and business entities holding that counties lack the element of sovereignty necessary for parens patriae standing because counties unlike states are not independent governmental entities existing by reason of any inherent sovereign authority of their residents recognizing that a suit by the national government against a state does no violence to the inherent nature of sovereignty holding that prejudice or injury is a necessary element of standing holding that preservation of error in the trial court is not necessary as to lack of standing