MONTANA ET AL.

v.

CROW TRIBE OF INDIANS ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Cotton Petroleum Corp. v. NEW Mexico, 490 U.S. 163 (U.S. 1989)
  …no occasion to reexamine our summary affirmance of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s conclusion that Montana’s unique severance and gross proceeds taxes may not be imposed on coal mined on Crow tribal property. See Montana v. Crow Tribe, 484 U. S. 997 (1988), summarily aff'g 819 F. 2d 895 (1987). In that case, as the Ninth Circuit noted, the state taxes had a negative effect on the marketability of coal produced in Montana. See id., at 900. Moreover, as the Solicitor General stated in urging that…

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• Montana v. Crow Tribe OF Indians, 523 U.S. 696 (U.S. 1998)
  …tive impact on the . . . marketability [of the Tribe’s coal],” id., at 900; Montana’s coal tax exactions were not “narrowly tailored” to serve only the State’s “legitimate” interests, id., at 902. Montana appealed, and this Court summarily affirmed. 484 U. S. 997 (1988). When the case returned to the District Court in 1988, the Tribe sought an order directing release of the funds held in the court’s registry. Montana did not object but, in a new twist, Westmoreland did. The company, for the first time in th…

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• The Crow Tribe OF Indians v. State OF Mont., 969 F.2d 848 (9th Cir. 1992)
  …tween the interests of the Crow Tribe and the money collected from a third person by Montana’s void tax. This contention was already addressed by this court in Crow Tribe of Indians v. State of Montana, 819 F. 2d 895 (9th Cir.1987) (Crow II), aff'd, 484 U.S. 997, 108 S.Ct. 685, 98 L.Ed.2d 638 (1988), when we said: Montana argues that its taxes do not burden Crow’s economic interests because the Tribe itself does not pay the tax. In other words, the taxes were imposed on the lessee, Westmoreland, and the Tr…