Government’s Arguments In Treaty Row Lack Merit, Indian Company Says

Mealey's (June 19, 2018, 8:26 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court justices should reject the United States’ “lukewarm” arguments to grant certiorari to decide whether an 1855 Indian treaty protects a tribe in Washington state from paying state taxes on gasoline it hauls to a reservation, the tribe’s gas-hauling business says in a May 30 supplemental brief (Washington State Department of Licensing v. Cougar Den, Inc., No. 16-1498, U.S. Sup.)....