tax-exemption

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25-178 Fitzgerald Truck Parts and Sales, LLC v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) excise-tax highway-tractor safe-harbor statutory-interpretation tax-exemption taxable-article The term "taxable article" or its equivalent are used repeatedly as a term of art throughout the tax code, case law, and Internal Revenue Service guid…
24-154 Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc., et al. v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission, et al. Wisconsin 2024-08-13 Judgment Issued Amici (43)Relisted (2) constitutional-challenge first-amendment religious-exemption religious-organization state-court tax-exemption 1. Does a state violate the First Amendment's Religion Clauses by denying a religious organization an otherwise-available tax exemption because the or…
22-961 Dean Allen Steeves v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied Response Waived church-status church-tax-exemption federal-excise-tax federal-income-tax integrated-auxiliary labor-as-commodity peonage peonage-prohibition statutory-interpretation tax-exemption 1. Whether Congresses ' Mandatory Exceptions, found in Public Law 91-172 at 508(c)(1)(A), 83 Stat 494- 495 & 6033(a)(2)A)(i), 83 Stat 519-520 for "c…
22-6685 Warren Havens v. Arnold Leong, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review district-court-remand federal-law-supremacy federal-officer-removal federal-question federal-question-jurisdiction gorilla-rule maritime-communications removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tax-exemption A defendant sued in a State Court can timely remove the action to the local federal District Court where the party alleges federal question jurisdicti…
20-563 Harris County, Texas v. PRSI Trading, LLC Texas 2020-10-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-agency auer-deference customs-and-border-patrol customs-border-patrol foreign-trade-zones issue-preclusion property-tax regulatory-interpretation tax-exemption Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in failing to follow the findings of CBP in its Headquarters Ruling Letters in holding that the foreign trade su…
19-949 Wisconsin Department of Revenue, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Seventh Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied 4-r-act commercial-entities discrimination-claim intangible-property property-tax property-tax-exemption railroad-taxation state-taxation tax-exemption Does a State violate subsection (b)(4) by exempting intangible personal property of non-railroads from its personal property tax, but not exempting su…
18-984 King Mountain Tobacco Company, Inc. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied circuit-split fair-and-equitable-tobacco-reform-act federal-tax federal-tax-exemption federal-tobacco-excise-tax indian-treaty indian-treaty-construction tax-exemption travel-rights yakama-treaty Although exemptions to tax laws should be express, that tax canon is not dispositive if the words of an Indian treaty or statute "are susceptible of a…
18-447 Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. v. CSX Transportation, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) commerce-clause discrimination dormant-commerce-clause equal-protection fuel-exemption interstate-commerce preemption state-taxation statutory-interpretation tax-discrimination tax-exemption transportation-carriers Under 49 U.S.C. § 11501(b)(4), when can a State justifiably maintain a sales-and-use tax exemption for fuel used by vessels to transport goods interst…