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Title: High Court Won't Review Smoke Shop Raid
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Associated Press
URL Source: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... /11/27/national/w073819S78.DTL
Published: Nov 27, 2006
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2006-11-27 11:44:14 by Brian S
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Views: 82
Comments: 4
(11-27) 07:38 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review whether Rhode Island authorities can enforce state law on an Indian reservation, a dispute triggered by a police raid on a tribal smoke shop. Cigarettes sold for less at the shop on the Narragansett Indian Tribe reservation because the tribe didn't pay for state-mandated tax stamps and it didn't collect a sales tax from customers who purchased cigarettes. The tribe argued that it is immune from state authority because it is recognized by the federal government. State police, however, obtained a search warrant from a Rhode Island court and raided the store in July 2003, leading to a violent clash with tribal leaders. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Rhode Island authorities can enforce state law on the Narragansett reservation. The case is Narragansett Indian Tribe v. Rhode Island, et al, 06-414. URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2006/11/27/national/w073819S78.DTL
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Kill Whitey!!!
"The desire to rule is the mother of heresies." -- St. John Chrysostom
They gotta stop reading all them damn treaties. Dumb redskins.
the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal bread.
Too bad the tribal leaders didn't blow some of the stormtroopers away for sticking their fascists noses where they didn't belong.
Bow to the state.
-Thomas Paine
#2. To: Brian S, lodwick (#0)
State police, however, obtained a search warrant from a Rhode Island court and raided the store in July 2003, leading to a violent clash with tribal leaders.
#3. To: Brian S (#0)
#4. To: Brian S, bluedogtxn, lodwick (#0)
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d raided the store in July 2003, leading to a violent clash with tribal leaders.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Just as there is no money in peace or freedom, there is also no money in a healthy Amerika - - IndieTX
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