High Court Petitioned Twice In Clash Over Taxing Tribe’s Gaming Revenue

(January 22, 2019, 8:49 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — An 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that a Florida Indian tribe must pay federal taxes on millions of dollars in gaming revenue that it distributes per capita to tribal members demands review because it infringes on Indian tribes’ rights to self-governance, a tribe and one of its members say in separate Jan. 7 U.S. Supreme Court petitions for writs of certiorari (Miccosukee Tribe of Indians v. United States, No. 18-895, 2019 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 86, and Sally Jim v. United States, No. 18-891, U.S. Sup., 2019 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 83)....