Federal appeals court backs Omaha Tribe in boundary case

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POSTED: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2014 1:59 AM
Associated Press |

A federal appeals court has upheld a judge’s ruling that lets the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska collect a liquor tax on business owners in the northeast Nebraska city of Pender.

In a decision released last week, a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling by Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf. He said in February that Pender is inside the Omaha Reservation and thus is subject to the tribe’s liquor regulations.

Those regulations require licenses for businesses that sell alcohol and a 10 percent tax on alcohol purchases. A group of Pender retailers sued in federal court in 2007, arguing that they weren’t subject to the tribe’s regulations because the land upon which their businesses sat was not part of the reservation.

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