White Mountain Apache Tribe v. Bracker

White Mountain Apache Tribe v. Bracker
Argued January 14, 1980
Decided June 27, 1980
Full case nameWhite Mountain Apache Tribe, et al. v. Bracker, et al.
Citations448 U.S. 136 (more)
100 S. Ct. 2578; 65 L. Ed. 2d 665; 1980 U.S. LEXIS 52
Case history
PriorWhite Mountain Apache Tribe v. Bracker, 585 P.2d 891 (Ariz. Ct. App. 1978); cert. granted, 444 U.S. 823 (1979).
Holding
Arizona's taxes that were assessed against a non-Indian contractor that was working exclusively for an Indian tribe on that tribe's reservation were preempted by federal law
Court membership
Chief Justice
Warren E. Burger
Associate Justices
William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart
Byron White · Thurgood Marshall
Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell Jr.
William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinions
MajorityMarshall, joined by Burger, Brennan, White, Blackmun, Powell
ConcurrencePowell
DissentStevens, joined by Stewart, Rehnquist
Laws applied
U.S. Const. art. 1, §8, cl. 3; 4 U.S.C. § 104; 4 U.S.C. § 105, et seq.

White Mountain Apache Tribe v. Bracker, 448 U.S. 136 (1980), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States holding that Arizona's taxes that were assessed against a non-Indian contractor that was working exclusively for an Indian tribe on that tribe's reservation were preempted by federal law.