BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- A day after a federal appeals court cleared the way for New York to begin taxing reservation cigarette sales to non-Indian customers, a state judge set a new obstacle Tuesday, ...

(CN) – New York still cannot collect taxes on cigarettes sold by Native American tribes to non-tribe members, the 2nd Circuit ruled. The state had petitioned to have the ban lifted while the case ...

Cayuga and Seneca counties will seek state reimbursement for some $180,000 in legal fees resulting from their cigarette tax raids on the Cayuga Indian Nation last November. The raids have triggered a ...

BUFFALO -- A Seneca Nation businessman who is challenging new federal restrictions on mail-order cigarette sales called the seizure of a delivery truck containing thousands of cartons of his ...

NEW YORK -- State Police have speculated that any government effort to block the flow of tax-free cigarettes onto New York's Indian reservations will lead to violence and could possibly escalate into ...

Cayuga and Seneca counties are going to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn last month’s unfavorable ruling in the counties’ cigarette tax dispute with the Cayuga Indians, a lawmaker said today.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Federal authorities say the final disputed elements of a law controlling cigarette distribution have been resolved in a lawsuit brought by Seneca Nation businesses in western New ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Soon, buying tax free gas or cigarettes will no longer require a trip down the Thruway. Newly sworn-in Seneca Nation President Matthew Pagels announced the development of a Seneca One ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A federal appeals court panel on Tuesday left in place an order exempting Seneca Indian Nation mail-order businesses from complying with the taxing laws of states where they sell ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (CN) - The Seneca Nation of Indians claims the United States unconstitutionally enacted a bill specifically directed at Native Americans, prohibiting them from selling cigarettes over ...

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