Kerr-McGee Corp. v. Navajo Tribe

Kerr-McGee v. Navajo Tribe
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 25, 1985 Decided April 16, 1985
Full case name	Kerr-McGee Corp. v. Navajo Tribe of Indians
Citations	471 U.S. 195 (more) 105 S. Ct. 1900; 85 L. Ed. 2d 200; 1985 U.S. LEXIS 2738
Case history
Prior	731 F.2d 597 (9th Cir. 1984); cert. granted, 469 U.S. 879 (1984).
Holding
An Indian tribe is not required to obtain the approval of the Secretary of the Interior in order to impose taxes on non-tribal persons or entities doing business on a reservation
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinion
Majority	Burger, joined by Brennan, White, Marshall, Blackmun, Rehnquist, Stevens, O'Connor
Powell took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
25 U.S.C. § 461

Kerr-McGee v. Navajo Tribe, 471 U.S. 195 (1985), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that an Indian tribe is not required to obtain the approval of the Secretary of the Interior in order to impose taxes on non-tribal persons or entities doing business on a reservation.