Legal Opinion
People ex rel. Becerra v. Native Wholesale Supply Co.
California Court of Appeal, 5th District
Decided July 2, 2019No. C084031, C084961Published
1Opinion of the CourtRobie, J.
*77Defendant Native Wholesale Supply Company (NWS), an Indian-chartered corporation headquartered on a reservation in New York, sold over a billion contraband cigarettes to an Indian tribe in California, which then sold the cigarettes to the general public in California. ( People ex rel. Harris v. Native Wholesale Supply Co. (2011) 196 Cal.App.4th 357, 362-364, 126 Cal.Rptr.3d 257 ( Harris ).) The cigarettes were imported from Canada, stored at various *449places in the United States (not including California), and then shipped to California after they were ordered from the reservation in New York.…
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