From: Law360
By Adam Lidgett
The state of New York on Tuesday told the Second Circuit that a lower court correctly barred a Native American-owned tobacco maker’s bulk sales of cigarettes within the state, saying the district court correctly found that the sale of cigarettes without tax stamps violates state tax law.
The state’s brief was filed in an appeal that sprung from a July 2016 decision in which King Mountain Tobacco Co. beat almost all of the federal claims, including claims under the Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act and the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking…
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