Atkinson Trading Co. v. Shirley

Atkinson Trading Co. v. Shirley
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued Mar. 27, 2001 Decided May 29, 2001
Full case name	Atkinson Trading Co., Inc. v. Joe Shirley, Jr., et al.
Docket no.	00-454
Citations	532 U.S. 645 (more) 121 S. Ct. 1825; 149 L. Ed. 2d 889
Case history
Prior	Atkinson Trading Co. v. Shirley, 210 F.3d 1247 (10th Cir. 2000)
Holding
The Navajo Nation's imposition of a hotel occupancy tax upon nonmembers on non-Indian fee land within its reservation is invalid
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinion
Majority	Rehnquist, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
25 U.S.C. § 261

Atkinson Trading Co. v. Shirley, 532 U.S. 645 (2001), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held the Navajo Nation's imposition of a hotel occupancy tax upon nonmembers on non-Indian fee land within its reservation is invalid.