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Washington Vs. Confederated Tribes

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 10, 1980

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  1. Mescalero Apache Tribe Vs. Jones US Supreme Court · Mar 27, 1973
  2. Goosby Vs. Osser US Supreme Court · Jan 17, 1973
  3. United States Vs. Mazurie US Supreme Court · Jan 21, 1975
  4. Morris Vs. Hitchcock US Supreme Court · May 16, 1904
  5. Washington v. Confederated
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  6. Tribes - 447 U.S. 134 (1980) U.S. Supreme Court Washington v. Confederated
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  7. Tribes, 447 U.S. 134 (1980) Washington v. Confederated
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  8. and are not rendered inescapably frivolous by the decisions in Mescalero Apache Tribe v. Jones
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  9. U. S. 145 , and McClanahan v. Arizona
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  10. Page 447 U. S. 137 packages of cigarettes prior to the time of sale to nonmembers of the Tribe. Cf. Moe v. Salish
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  11. State's assumption of civil and criminal jurisdiction over the Makah and Lummi Reservations was unlawful. Washington v. Yakima
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  12. once addressed the intricate problem of state taxation of matters involving Indian tribes and their members. Moe v. Salish
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  13. McClanahan v. Arizona
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  14. issues. 446 F.Supp. 1339 (ED Wash.1978). The first case, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation v. State
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  15. and Lummi Tribes. The second, United States of America and Confederated Bands and Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation v. State
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  16. court where a constitutional challenge to a state statute is grounded only in the Supremacy Clause. Swift & Co. v. Wickham
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  17. U. S. 147 Clause as well as the Supremacy Clause. Relying primarily upon language in footnote 17 in Moe v. Salish
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  18. that the insubstantiality of Commerce Clause claims such as those before us flows from Mescalero Apache Tribe v. Jones
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  19. U. S. 145 (1973), and McClanahan v. Arizona
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  20. We think the United States reads too much into this language. Goosby v. Osser
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  21. state statutes will not necessarily convert a suit to restrain their lawless behavior into a 2281 case, Phillips v. United
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  22. of jurisdiction holdings is properly before us, and we turn to the merits. IV A In Moe v. Salish
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  23. retain unless divested of it by federal law or necessary implication of their dependent status. Cf. United States v. Wheeler
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  24. have acknowledged tribal power to tax non-Indians entering the reservation to engage in economic activity. Buster v. Wright
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  25. Iron Crow v. Oglala
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  26. Morris v. Hitchcock
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  27. In these respects, the present cases differ sharply from Oliphant v. Suquamish
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  28. outside is not generated on the reservations by activities in which the tribes have a significant interest. Cf. Moe v. Salish
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  29. to regulate businesses selling goods to reservation Indians for cash or exchange, see Warren Trading Post Co. v. Arizona
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  30. could perhaps preempt state taxation through the exercise of properly delegated federal power to do so, cf. Fisher v. District
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  31. Williams v. Lee
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  32. of the Tribes and the Federal Government. on the one hand, and those of the State, on the other. McClanahan v. Arizona
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  33. all state taxation of matters significantly touching the political and economic interests of the Tribes. See Moe v. Salish
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  34. to nonmembers of the Tribe. Relying in part on the lower court opinion in Moe, Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes v. Moe
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  35. for federal court jurisdiction over crimes committed by Indians on another Tribe's reservation. Cf. United States v. Antelope
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  36. Indian affairs is considerably more expansive than it is within reservation boundaries. Cf. Mescalero Apache Tribe v. Jones
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  37. Brief for Appellants in No. 7630, p. 110. We therefore express no opinion on the matter. v. The
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  38. and that event took place on the reservation. Accordingly, under McClanahan v. Arizona
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  39. told, the McClanahan principle is inapplicable, and the tax should be upheld under Mescalero Apache Tribe v. Jones
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  40. apparently recognize that this issue is controlled by the intervening decision in the State's favor in Washington v. Yakima
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  41. Together with Washington v. United
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  42. also on appeal from the same court, and No. 760, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation et al. v. Washington
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  43. Proceedings in both cases were stayed for several months, however, pending this Court's decisions in Moe v. Salish
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  44. Kootenai Tribes, 425 U. S. 463 (1976), and Bryan v. Itasca
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  45. Stat. 58, granted it general authority to tax reservation Indians. After this theory was rejected in Bryan v. Itasca
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  46. the products. But where the wholesaler or retailer is an Indian on whom the tax cannot be imposed under McClanahan v. Arizona
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  47. but after Bryan v. Itasca
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  48. County, 426 U. S. 373 (1976), and Moe v. Salish
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  49. either under the Commerce Clause or the intergovernmental immunity doctrine as laid down originally in M'Culloch v. Maryland
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  50. U.S. Supreme Court Washington v. Confederated
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