UNITED STATES v. BUREAU OF REVENUE OF STATE OF NEW MEXICO

Nos. 4488-4493.

217 F.Supp. 849 (1963)

UNITED STATES of America, Phillips Petroleum Company, the Anaconda Company, Homestake-New Mexico Partners, Homestake-Sapin Partners, Kermac Nuclear Fuels Corp., and Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. BUREAU OF REVENUE OF the STATE OF NEW MEXICO, Charles C. Brunacini, Commissioner of Revenue, and Carlos Trujillo, Jr., Director, School Tax Division, Defendants.

United States District Court D. New Mexico.

June 7, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis F. Oberdorfer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frederick B. Ugast and William Massar, Attorneys, Department of Justice, Ruth Streeter, Asst. U. S. Atty., Holger Albrethsen, Jr., Chief Counsel, Grand Junction Office, United States Atomic Energy Commission, Robert A. McKay and John F. McNett, Office of the Chief Counsel, Albuquerque Operations Office, United States Atomic Energy Commission, for plaintiff United States.

Bryan G. Johnson, Albuquerque, N. M., for plaintiffs Phillips Petroleum Co. and Anaconda Co.

Harry L. Bigbee, Santa Fe, N. M., for plaintiffs Homestake-New Mexico Partners and Homestake-Sapin Partners.

Lynn Adams, Oklahoma City, Okl., for plaintiffs Kermac Nuclear Fuels Corporation and Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc.

Earl E. Hartley, Atty. Gen. of New Mexico, Norman S. Thayer, Asst. Atty. Gen., and F. Harlan Flint, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendants.

Before BRATTON, Circuit Judge, and ROGERS and PAYNE, District Judges.


BRATTON, Circuit Judge.

These cases present for determination the question of the validity of privilege taxes imposed by the State of New Mexico upon private companies, measured by receipts from the Atomic Energy Commission, hereinafter referred to as the Commission, in payment for uranium concentrate.

The United States is one of the plaintiffs in all of these six cases. Phillips Petroleum is a co-plaintiff in one; The Anaconda Company in one; Homestake-New...

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