This is an interesting development. I assume that Sawyer County will sue, along with the State of Wisconsin, to compel the payment of these taxes. And perhaps the Seventh Circuit will reach a different conclusion from the Sixth Circuit in KBIC v. Michigan. I wonder, however, if the Keweenaw Bay case’s expert reports were tribe-specific. Maybe, maybe not. Anyway, this interesting development may be a bad thing for Keweenaw Bay, who had to work to make sure the Supreme Court did not grant cert in their case. This development, for all practical purposes, appears to reopen that case.
From Indianz:
The Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is telling tribal members not to pay property taxes in Sawyer County, Wisconsin.
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