Judge Permanently Bars Alabama County From Taxing Tribe’s Property

(December 7, 2016, 10:19 AM EST) -- MOBILE, Ala. — An Alabama federal judge issued a permanent injunction on Dec. 5, barring a county tax assessor from levying property taxes against a Native American tribe after the assessor withdrew further opposition to the tribe’s bid for an injunction based on a recent finding by the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that the judge’s earlier preliminary injunction was proper (Poarch Band of Creek Indians v. Thad Moore Jr., in his official capacity as Tax Assessor of Escambia County, Alabama, No. 15-277, S.D. Ala.)....

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