9th Circuit Panel Says Yakama Nation’s Tax Claims Barred By Anti-Injunction Act

Mealey's (January 17, 2017, 2:35 PM EST) -- SEATTLE — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Dec. 13 vacated a district court’s order granting summary judgment to the federal government and remanded a suit brought by a Native American tribe over tobacco taxes with directions to dismiss the case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction because the claims brought by the tribe are barred by the Anti-Injunction Act (Confederated Tribes And Bands of the Yakama Indian Nation v. Alcohol and Trade Tobacco Bureau, et al., No. 14-35165, 9th Cir.; 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 22103)....

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