9th Circ. Sides With Calif. In Tribal Cigarette Tax Fight

By Bonnie Eslinger ( November 7, 2025, 6:02 PM EST) -- The Ninth Circuit on Friday backed California in a dispute it brought to enforce cigarette taxes against a tobacco company owned and operated by a federally recognized Native American tribe, holding that the tribal leader defendants can't claim sovereign or qualified immunity exempts them from the federal tax law....

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