9th Circuit Won’t Rehear $58 Million Tribal Tobacco Company Tax Case

Mealey's (October 24, 2018, 8:32 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO  — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 22 denied rehearing en banc of its affirmance of a Washington federal judge’s determination that a tribal manufacturer of tobacco products located on land held in trust by the United States is not entitled to an exemption from the federal tobacco excise tax (United States v. King Mountain Tobacco Co., Nos. 14-36055, 16-35607, 9th Cir.)....