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Tribal tax immunity

CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit ruled against Wisconsin in a dispute with an Indian tribe over its taxation of reacquired reservation land, finding Ojibwe tribal members have tax immunity under an 1854 treaty and the one-time act of selling reservation property to a non-Indian does not surrender the parcel's tax immunity for all time.

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