Legal Opinion
Mustang Fuel Corp. v. Hatch
District Court, W.D. Oklahoma
Decided July 18, 1995No. CIV-88-1801-A, CIV-88-1954-APublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
ALLEY, District Judge.
Before the Court are cross-motions for summary judgment filed by all parties in these consolidated cases. The parties seek a ruling on the validity of a tax law enacted by the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma (the “Tribes”) in 1988 that imposes a severance tax on all oil and gas produced from lands within the Tribes’ territorial jurisdiction. The principal issue is: what is that territorial jurisdiction?
Plaintiffs do not question the Tribes’ power to levy the tax or to levy it on production from tribal lands, that is, lands held in trust for the Tribes by the…
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- Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache TribeSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
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- Mustang Production Co. v. HarrisonCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1996