Reversal Of Arbitration Award For Tribe In Taxation Row Heads To High Court

(June 7, 2018, 10:28 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court justices need to review a 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision to vacate an arbitration award in favor of an Oklahoma Indian tribe in a dispute with the state over a drink tax at tribal casinos because the ruling violates the strong federal policy of enforcing arbitration agreements, the tribe tells the high court in its May 30 petition for a writ of certiorari (Citizen Potawatomi Nation v. Oklahoma, No. 17-1624, U.S. Sup., 2018 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 2144)....