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CAL. BD. OF EQUALIZATION v. CHEMEHUEVI TRIBE

No. 85-130.

474 U.S. 9 (1985)

CALIFORNIA STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION ET AL. v. CHEMEHUEVI INDIAN TRIBE

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 4, 1985

PER CURIAM.

Since 1959 California has imposed an excise tax on the distribution of cigarettes. Respondent Chemehuevi Indian Tribe sells cigarettes on its reservation in southeastern California. The Tribe originally remitted the state tax to petitioner State Board of Equalization (petitioner) insofar as that tax was imposed on the distribution of cigarettes to non-Indian purchasers. But in 1977 the Tribe enacted a cigarette...

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