Federal Judge Rules Against Tribes in Cigarette-Tax Dispute

From: New York Law Journal

Joel Stashenko

State laws that tax tobacco sales by Native American vendors to non-Native Americans do not infringe on tribal sovereignty or other constitutional rights, a federal judge ruled.

The Seneca and Cayuga tribes challenged amendments to state law that imposed taxes on wholesale purchases of tobacco products that were ultimately sold to non-Native Americans.

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