Cert Petition Filed Over Tax On Lessees Of California Tribe’s Land

(March 31, 2022, 1:56 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — With “sharp disagreement among the lower courts” about whether a California county’s imposition of a possessory interest tax on lessees of land set aside for a Native American tribe is preempted by federal Indian law, U.S. Supreme Court review is warranted, hundreds of lessees say in a March 22 petition for a writ of certiorari....