Here are the materials in HCI Distribution v. New York State Police (N.Y. Sup. Ct.):
2012-02-28 Order to show cause
2012-02-28 Final Verified Petition
2012-02-27 Tarbell Affidavit (Executed)
2012-02-28 Guerrero Affidavit (Executed)
4 State Police – Memorandum of Law
5 State Police – Appendix Unreported Cases
Here.
Here are the questions presented:
1. Did the court below err by holding that the State of Washington has jurisdiction to charge a state cigarette tax crime against a Quinault Indian and other Indians allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes at the Quinault Indian’s trust allotment located outside the Quinault Indian Reservation boundaries?
2. Did the court below err in refusing to apply the federal law definition of Indian country, 18 U.S.C. § 1151(c)?
3. Did the court below err in holding that the State of Washington, an optional Public Law 280 state, had state tax crime criminal jurisdiction of enrolled Indians on trust lands?
4. Did the court below err in holding that Washington law, Wash.Rev.Code 37.12.010 through 060, was exempt from the Quinault Tribe’s retrocession of state jurisdiction?
The City of Dillingham has petitioned to annex a large portion of the Nushagak Bay. The City intends to impose a tax on the sale or use of raw fish within the territory to be annexed. The Petition has been opposed by several Alaska Native groups that rely heavily on Bay resources.
The Petition and related documents can be found here:
http://commerce.alaska.gov/dca/lbc/2010_City_of_Dillingham_Annexation/
The City also has requested preclearance from the Department of Justice to hold the annexation vote, pursuant to the Voting Rights Act of 1965:
http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/notices/vnote013012.php
Here.
Here is today’s opinion in Muscogee (Creek) Nation v. Pruitt.
And the briefs:
Lower court materials here.
Here.
Excerpt:
Inside, employees of the Oneida Indian Nation dump the shredded tobacco leaves into rolling machines and fashion them into cigarettes to be sold at a dozen tribal convenience stores midway between Syracuse and Utica.
The cigarettes, branded with names like Niagara’s and Bishop, sell for as little as $39.95 for a 10-pack carton — much cheaper than those at non-Indian retailers — and bring in millions of dollars a year to the tribe, which also has a resort casino, five golf courses and a multimedia production house.
“We tried poverty for 200 years,” the Oneidas’ leader, Ray Halbritter, said in an interview. “We decided to try something different.”
Thanks to T.W.
Here is the opinion in Pourier v. S.D. Dept. of Revenue and Regulation.
An excerpt:
Loren Pourier, the owner of a corporation that operates a gas station on reservation land, brought an action against the South Dakota Department of Revenue and Regulation (Department) to protest a state motor-fuel tax imposed on the corporation. This Court held the fuel tax was illegal in Pourier v. South Dakota Department of Revenue & Regulation (Pourier I), 2003 S.D. 21, 658 N.W.2d 395. Pourier then filed a motion for costs and attorneys’ fees pursuant to SDCL 10-59-34. The circuit court granted the motion. The Department appeals. We reverse.
Here (along with briefs).
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