Legal Opinion
Wagnon v. Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 6, 2005No. 04-631PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thomas
The State of Kansas imposes a tax on the receipt of motor fuel by fuel distributors within its boundaries. Kansas applies that tax to motor fuel received by non-Indian fuel distributors who subsequently deliver that fuel to a gas station owned by, and located on, the Reservation of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation (Nation). The Nation maintains that this application of the Kansas motor fuel tax is an impermissible affront to its sovereignty. The Court of Appeals agreed, holding that the application of the Kansas tax to fuel received by a non-Indian distributor, but subsequently delivered to…
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