Legal Opinion
Reservation Telephone Cooperative v. Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 30, 1996No. 95-1526PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
Three telephone cooperatives (the Cooperatives) challenge the authority of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation (the Tribes) to impose a possessory interest tax on their telephone lines and rights-of-way located within the Reservation. The Cooperatives contend that federal law governing the construction and operation of telephone lines on Indian reservations preempts the Tribes’ right to tax the Cooperatives’ telephone interests. The district court 1 dismissed the action without prejudice, holding that the Cooperatives must first exhaust their…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- National Farmers Union Insurance v. Crow Tribe of IndiansSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Iowa Mutual Insurance v. LaPlanteSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Texaco, Inc. v. ZahCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1993
- Blue Legs v. United States Bureau of Indian AffairsCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1989
- Northern States Power Co. v. Prairie Island Mdewakanton Sioux Indian CommunityCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1993
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Reservation Telephone Cooperative v. Three Affiliated Tribes Of The Fort Berthold ReservationCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1996