ELR Citation: ELR 20097
No(s). 01-35219 (9th Cir. Nov 8, 2002)

The court reverses a district court decision holding that a Washington county tax imposed against a Native American tribe after it transferred forest land to the United States to hold in trust for the tribe was a permissible taxation of land under the Indian General Allotment Act of 1887. Under Wash...