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23 Jun 2015, 10:56 am by Will Field
With the local economy in shambles, officials argued that attracting a major corporation to the area would increase tax revenue and provide jobs. [read post]
30 Apr 2015, 4:17 am by Charles Sartain
  Texas gives tax incentives for certain oil and gas production. [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 6:30 am
Yücel is a citizen of Sweden . . ., and was extradited from the Republic of Moldova to the United States in May 2014.U.S. v. [read post]
16 Mar 2015, 7:39 am by Amy Howe
Smith—was widely criticized; both Congress and his own state legislature disowned the result. [read post]
11 Mar 2015, 6:04 am by Amy Howe
United States, the “rails to trails” case. [read post]
5 Mar 2015, 9:40 am by Darien Shanske
The issue in the case was interpretation of Section 11501(b)(4) of the [4-R] Act, which prohibits a state from “impos[ing] another tax that discriminates against a rail carrier. [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 2:48 pm by Mark Walsh
It’s a case that requires the Court to interpret the Railroad Revitalization and Regulation Reform Act of 1976, or the so-called 4-R Act. [read post]
10 Feb 2015, 9:33 am by Joseph A. Ranney
In one of Winslow’s last major cases, State v. [read post]
26 Jan 2015, 4:56 am by Amy Howe
At Slate, David Herzig contends that the Court will vote to strike down state bans on same-sex marriage to avoid “large-scale tax problems for tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of taxpayers. [read post]
17 Dec 2014, 7:57 am by The Federalist Society
The question presented in the case is twofold: (1) whether a state violates the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 (4-R Act) by “discriminating against a rail carrier” when it requires rail carriers to pay a sales-and-use tax but exempts railroads’ competitors from paying the same tax; and (2) whether, in resolving a claim of unlawful tax discrimination under the 4-R Act, a court should… [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 11:57 am by Jaclyn Belczyk
Brohl [transcript, PDF; JURIST report] the court is considering whether the Tax Injunction Act (TIA) [28 USC § 1341] bars federal court jurisdiction over a suit brought by non-taxpayers to enjoin the informational notice and reporting requirements of a state law that neither imposes a tax, nor requires the collection of a tax, but serves only as a secondary... [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 8:50 am by Darien Shanske
This case is about Section 11501(b)(4) of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 (the “4-R Act”), which prohibits a state from “impos[ing] another tax that discriminates against a rail carrier. [read post]
24 Nov 2014, 5:01 am by James Edward Maule
Before 1913, and since 1913, they have been paying federal excise taxes, state property taxes, local property taxes, state sales taxes, occupation taxes, head taxes, and a variety of other taxes.My guess, based on the reference to 1913, is that the author meant to say that “until 1913 Americans did not pay a federal income tax. [read post]
15 Nov 2014, 5:17 pm by Kirk Jenkins
Hisquierdo, which held that retirement benefits under the Railroad Retirement Act could not be subject to an offset in state-law domestic relations property judgments. [read post]
3 Nov 2014, 6:46 pm by Old Fox
  That law required Northerners to return escaped slaves back into slavery or else pay huge fines.Because the “Fugitive Slave Law” allowed Free Blacks to be carried into slavery, this law was disastrous for blacks in the North; and as a consequence of the atrocious provisions of this Democratic law, some 20,000 blacks in the North left the United States and fled to Canada.The “Underground Railroad” reached the height of its activity during this period,… [read post]