December 06, 2024
A Nebraska tribe's tobacco companies are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an Eighth Circuit ruling that held the state can regulate a tribally owned manufacturer's sales of cigarettes to Indigenous-owned distributors, arguing that Native American nations' ability to conduct their own affairs within their own borders is at stake.
April 27, 2023
A Nebraska federal judge handed the Winnebago Tribe's tobacco companies a partial win Thursday in their lawsuit seeking to block the state from funneling their revenues to a state public-health fund, finding the state can't collect revenues from tobacco products sold on the Winnebago Reservation, but it can elsewhere.
September 27, 2022
Two tobacco companies owned by the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska have asked a federal judge to prohibit state authorities from subjecting them to laws that require, among other obligations, certain tobacco-product manufacturers to surrender some of their revenue to a state-held fund.
August 16, 2018
Nebraska officials urged a federal court to toss a suit filed by two Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska-owned cigarette companies challenging the application of state laws, saying the state has immunity to the suit and that its laws aren't blocked by the U.S. Constitution or federal law.
August 03, 2018
A federal judge on Thursday refused the federal government's bid to pause a suit filed by two tribe-owned cigarette companies challenging the application of two Nebraska laws, saying the government hadn't shown that its criminal investigation of the companies would be hindered by letting the case go on.