Category: National Supremacy
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Indian Lands
Another line of anomalous decisions conferring tax immunity upon lessees of restricted Indian lands was overruled in 1949. The first of these cases, Choctaw & Gulf R.R. v. Harrison,1 held that a gross production tax on oil, gas, and other minerals wa…
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National Supremacy Clause Interpretation
Although the Supreme Court had held, prior to Chief Justice John Marshall's appointment to it, that the Supremacy Clause rendered null and void a state constitutional or statutory provision that was inconsistent with a treaty executed by the Federal Government, <a name=t1 href=#f1 target="_…