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  • City of Fontana v. California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (City of Ontario)

    Publication Date: 2017-09-13
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Distribution and Wholesale | Retail | State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-09-12
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean, Leslie Allen Hausrath, Kevin R. Brodehl for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Diane S. Shaw, Assistant Attorney General, Anne Michelle Burr and Heather Brae Hoesterey, Deputy Attorneys General for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number: No. A147642

    Corporation's transfer of operations changed cities to which its retail sales taxes needed to be attributed (Richman, J.)

  • City of Anaheim v. Cohen

    Publication Date: 2017-09-05
    Practice Area: Government | Tax
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-08-30
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rutan & Tucker, Jeffrey M. Oderman for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Douglas J. Woods, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Constance L. LeLouis and Anthony P. O'Brien, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendants and Respondents.
    Case Number: No. C081918

    City's payment of funds directly to contractor did not undermine city's claim that funds constituted loan to itself as successor agency (Robie, J.)

  • In re DBSI, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2017-09-05
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy | Tax | Government
    Industry: Federal Government
    Date Filed: 2017-08-31
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Marsha J. Pechman, District Judge, Presiding Before: Michael Daly Hawkins, Ronald M. Gould, and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer A. Hradil (argued), Mark B. Conlan, Michael F. Quinn, and Brett S. Theisen, Gibbons P.C., Newark, New Jersey, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: Ivan Clay Dale (argued), Thomas J. Clark, and Gilbert S. Rothenberg, Attorneys; Diana L. Erbsen, Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Caroline D. Ciraolo, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Tax Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendant-Appellant.
    Case Number: No. 16-35597

    Sovereign immunity no bar to bankruptcy trustee's action to avoid debtor's fraudulent federal tax payments (Paez, J.)

  • Quinault Indian Nation v. Pearson

    Publication Date: 2017-08-31
    Practice Area: Native American Law | Tax
    Industry: Retail | State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-08-29
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Benjamin H. Settle, District Judge, Presiding Before: M. Margaret McKeown, Consuelo M. Callahan, and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rob Roy Smith, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, Seattle, Washington, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
    for defendant: Robert E. Kovacevich, Spokane, Washington; Randal B. Brown, Covington, Washington; Aaron L. Lowe, Spokane, Washington; for Defendants-Appellants.
    Case Number: No. 15-35263 No. 15-35267

    Sovereign immunity barred defendant's counterclaims against Indian tribe (McKeown, J.)

  • California Cannabis Coalition v. City of Upland

    Publication Date: 2017-08-28
    Practice Area: Tax | Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-08-28
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roger Jon Diamond for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation, Jonathan M. Coupal, Trevor A. Grimm, Timothy A. Bittle, Brittany A. Sitzer; Jones & Mayer, James R. Touchstone and Krista MacNevin Jee for Defendants and Respondents.
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    Constitutional provision limiting government power to impose tax does not apply to voter initiatives (Cuéllar, J.)

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  • In re RW Meridian LLC

    Publication Date: 2017-08-21
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy | Tax | Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: 9th Cir., B.A.P.
    Judge: Honorable Margaret M. Mann, Bankruptcy Judge, Presiding Before: JURY, FARIS, and YUN,* Bankruptcy Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: County of Imperial Treasurer-Tax Collector, Appellant.
    for defendant: Ronald E. Stadtmueller, Trustee; RW Meridian LLC, Appellees.
    Case Number: BAP No. SC-16-1227-JuFY

    Expiration of debtor's right to redeem tax-defaulted property did not divest it of equitable and legal interests in property (Jury, B.J.)

  • City of Culver City v. Cohen

    Publication Date: 2017-08-08
    Practice Area: Tax | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-08-07
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kane, Ballmer & Berkman, Murray O. Kane, Joan S. Smyth, Edward B. Kang for Plaintiffs and Respondents.
    for defendant: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Douglas J. Woods, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Marc A. LeForestier and Sylvia A. Cates, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number: No. C077799

    Department of Finance may not resort to "self-help" to force city's repayment of funds improperly transferred to it by former redevelopment agency (Nicholson, Acting P.J.)

  • Russell City Energy Company, LLC v. City of Hayward

    Publication Date: 2017-08-08
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Energy | State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-08-07
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Winston & Strawn, Robb C. Adkins, Charles J. Moll III, Krista M. Enns and Benjamin J. Kimberley for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Office of City Attorney, Michael S. Lawson; Jarvis, Fay, Doporto & Gibson, Benjamin P. Fay and Gabriel J. McWhirter, for Defendant and Respondent.
    Case Number: No. A144749

    City may not contract away power to impose local taxes (Jones, P.J.)

  • Jacks v. City of Santa Barbara

    Publication Date: 2017-06-29
    Practice Area: Tax | Public Utilities
    Industry: Energy
    Date Filed: 2017-06-29
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Huskinson, Brown & Heidenreich, David W.T. Brown and Paul E. Heidenreich for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Ariel Pierre Calonne, City Attorney, Tom R. Shapiro, Assistant City Attorney; Colantuono, Highsmith & Whatley, Michael G. Colantuono, Ryan Thomas Dunn, Leonard P. Aslanian; Jarvis, Fay, Doporto & Gibson, Benjamin P. Fay, Rick W. Jarvis and Andrea Saltzman for Defendant and Respondent.
    Case Number: No. S225589

    Legality of surcharge added to utility bills depended on relationship to actual value of municipal property interest that surcharge was intended to compensate (Cantil-Sakauye, C.J.)

  • 926 North Ardmore Avenue, LLC v. county of Los Angeles

    Publication Date: 2017-06-29
    Practice Area: Real Estate | Tax
    Industry: Real Estate
    Date Filed: 2017-06-29
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: FisherBroyles, Goodson Wachtel and Petrulis, Lemoine Skinner III; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Daniel M. Kolkey, Julian W. Poon, Lauren M. Blas and Martie P. Kutscher for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: John F. Krattli, County Counsel, Mary C. Wickham, Interim County Counsel, and Albert Ramseyer, Principal Deputy County Counsel, for Defendant and Respondent.
    Case Number: No. S222329

    Documentary transfer tax properly applied to transfer of majority interest in legal entity that held title to real property (Corrigan, J.)