Idaho State Tax Commission v. Staker

A good beginning point for an analysis of the voluminous record, multiplicity of briefs, and complex issues, is to recognize that four of the State’s district judges saw enough substance to the claims of the counties to justify the issuance of writs to the Tax Commission. Six counties believing *740their local taxpayers to have been aggrieved by the actions of the State Tax Commission have gone to bat for those taxpayers. If the counties involved did not do so, the big question is: from whence in our system of laws and men are the taxpayers afforded any protection? My reading of the Court’s…