United States Sixth Circuit

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.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/26/2009
• Published 06/26/2009

Judges

• Before MERRITT, GRIFFIN, and KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Vernle Charles Durocher, Jr., Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for Appellant.  Kevin Joseph Moody, Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, P.L.C., Lansing, Michigan, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Vernle Charles Durocher, Jr., Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for Appellant.  Kevin Joseph Moody, Jaclyn S. Levine, Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, P.L.C., Lansing, Michigan, B. Eric Restuccia, Office of the Michigan Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan, for Appellees.