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The New York state is holding onto a truckload of untaxed Indian-made cigarettes worth $2 million despite a court ruling ordering the state to return the shipment of tobacco produc...

A New York State Supreme Court justice has ruled that the state had no legal authority to seize and hold a shipment of untaxed cigarettes that were manufactured on Indian land and ...

In the summer of 2011, the Altria Group, the biggest of the Big Tobacco companies and the parent company of Philip Morris USA, released a “white paper” that urged New York State to...

A former state senator who relentlessly attacked the Seneca Nation of Indians and other indigenous communities for selling tax-free cigarettes on Indian reservations has been sente...

Repeated efforts by the Muscogee (Creek) Nation to conduct tobacco sales without state intervention appear to have floundered in a federal appeals court which dismissed sovereignty...

On February 22, the New York Times published a story titled “In Tax Fight, Tribes Make, and Sell, Cigarettes,” on the front page...

In a case brought by the Seneca Nation of Indians , a New York appellate court has ruled that the negative economic impact to Indian reservations from the state’s cigarette tax law...

Native American Heritage Month will see a key test of sovereignty in the U.S...

Since New York began enforcing the collection of state excise taxes on premium cigarette brands sold on reservations to non-Indians in June, many tribes have started manufacturing ...