In an Indian tribe's action seeking injunctive relief from Michigan's policy of taxing transactions involving the tribe and from Michigan's reliance on an informal refund process to sort those immunities out on a case-by-case basis, judgment for Defendant is reversed, where the questions presented covered a myriad of hypothetical transactions and were too abstract and unsupported by specific facts.
Read Keweenaw Bay Indian Comm. v. Rising, No. 08-1585
Appellate Information
Argued April 30, 2009
Decided and Filed June 26, 2009
Judges
Opinion by Judge Merritt
Counsel
For Appellant:
Vernle Charles Durocher, Jr., Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Minneapolis, MN
For Appellees:
Kevin Joseph Moody, Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, P.L.C., Lansing, MI
