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Jump to full article: Business First Of Buffalo, 2010-09-08
Author: James Fink
Intro: Several days of testimony are expected to take place next week as two Native American tribes continue their legal quest to quash New York's efforts to collect sales tax for tobacco products sold on sovereign territory.
U.S. Western District Federal Court Judge Richard Arcara set the next round of hearings for Sept. 14 that pits the Seneca Nation of Indians and Cayuga Nation of Indians against the state. The hearings will be held in his chambers, beginning at 10 a.m.
The Senecas and Cayugas are expected to call for witnesses including Robert Odawi Porter, Seneca Nation senior policy advisor, and Jonathan Taylor, president of the Sarasota-based Taylor Policy Group Inc. Taylor is an economist who specializes in Native American commerce issues and is a research assistant for the Harvard Project of American Indian Economics
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