Indian Tribe Wins Dismissal Of Cigarette Tax Suit

By Jesse Greenspan

Law360, New York (November 02, 2009, 2:26 PM ET) -- A federal judge has dismissed a putative antitrust class action that sought to nix a Washington Indian tribe's cigarette tax, saying the plaintiffs failed to exhaust their remedies in tribal court.

Judge Benjamin H. Settle of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington ruled Thursday that because there was a pending matter before the Puyallup Tribal Court of Appeals and because the plaintiffs failed to establish any applicable exception to requiring exhaustion of tribal remedies, it must therefore grant the Puyallup Indian Tribe's...
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