Franchise Tax Board of California, Petitioner v. Gilbert P. Hyatt
Case Number:
17-1299
Court:
Nature of Suit:
Firms
Government Agencies
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December 03, 2021
Kentucky Pension Fund Says It Can't Be Sued In Delaware
A state pension fund pushed Delaware's Chancery Court on Friday to toss its contract dispute with a New York hedge fund manager, arguing that a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2019 requires the case to be heard in Kentucky.
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May 13, 2019
Breyer Says Court Conservatives Aren't Respecting Precedent
An alarmed Justice Stephen Breyer wondered Monday "which cases the Court will overrule next" after the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority overturned yet another long-standing precedent it disagreed with, this time in a tax case.
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May 13, 2019
States Can't Be Sued In Other States' Courts, Justices Say
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said the California Franchise Tax Board can't be sued in another state's court, handing a victory to the agency that had sought for years to end the practice on sovereign immunity grounds.
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January 09, 2019
Justices Wary Of Calif. Tax Board's Sovereign Immunity Claim
U.S. Supreme Court justices struggled Wednesday to find the constitutional basis for a huge California tax agency's arguments that the framers meant to forbid one state from hauling another into its courts, and that they should overturn precedent to reflect this.
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January 04, 2019
Up Next At High Court: Drugs, Copyrights And State Immunity
The U.S. Supreme Court begins its first oral argument session of 2019 on Monday by hearing tort claims against pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., a circuit split over copyright infringement suits and a tax dispute with a big opportunity to expand sovereign immunity to states. Here are the key cases to watch for the week.
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December 14, 2018
Bid To Dismiss State Immunity Row Is In Vain, Justices Told
The California tax agency said Friday that a computer chip inventor's attempt to persuade U.S. Supreme Court justices to dismiss its fight against claims of wrongdoing in Nevada was too late and misleading.
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November 21, 2018
Professors Urge Justices Against Altering States' Immunity
Ten federal law professors told the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday that a 1979 court decision involving state sovereign immunity should be left in place, filing in support of an inventor in a dispute with the California Franchise Tax Board over whether the board should have immunity in another state's court.
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November 16, 2018
High Court Asked To Dismiss Bid To Expand States Immunity
An inventor in a long-running case concerning state immunity from prosecution in other state courts has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to not take up the issue a third time.
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September 18, 2018
44 States Ask Justices To Overturn 1979 Sovereign Immunity Case
Forty-four states chimed in Tuesday on behalf of the California Franchise Tax Board to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a 1979 state sovereign immunity decision, saying that decision "is particularly harmful in the tax context."
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September 11, 2018
Calif. Tax Board Asks Justices To Widen Sovereign Immunity
The U.S. Supreme Court, which has agreed to hear for the third time a dispute between California and a former resident, should use the opportunity to overturn a 1979 state sovereign immunity decision, the state's Franchise Tax Board said in a petitioner's brief Tuesday.