COMPTROLLER OF TREASURY OF MD. v. WYNNE

No. 13-485.

135 S.Ct. 1787 (2015)

COMPTROLLER OF the TREASURY OF MARYLAND, Petitioner v. Brian WYNNE et ux.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 18, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Brockman , Acting Solicitor General, Baltimore, MD, for petitioner.

Eric J. Feigin for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the petitioner.

Dominic F. Perella , Washington, DC, for respondents.

Bartow Farr, III , Washington, D.C., Douglas F. Gansler , Attorney General of Maryland, Steven M. Sullivan , Chief of Litigation, Julia Doyle Bernhardt , Deputy Chief of Litigation, William F. Brockman , Acting Solicitor General, Brian L. Oliner , Assistant Attorney General, Baltimore, MD, for Petitioner.

Neal Kumar Katyal , Dominic F. Perella , Counsel of Record, Frederick Liu , Sean Marotta , Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, D.C., for Respondents.

ALITO, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which ROBERTS, C.J., and KENNEDY, BREYER, and SOTOMAYOR, JJ., joined. SCALIA, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which THOMAS, J., joined as to Parts I and II. THOMAS, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which SCALIA, J., joined except as to the first paragraph. GINSBURG, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which SCALIA and KAGAN, JJ., joined.


This case involves the constitutionality of an unusual feature of Maryland's personal income tax scheme. Like many other States, Maryland taxes the income its residents earn both within and outside the State, as well as the income that nonresidents earn from sources within Maryland. But unlike most...

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