Professor Deanna Newton Quoted in "Hawaii 'Green Fee' Case to Test Limits of Federal Involvement" -- Bloomberg Law

Professor Deanna S. Newton is quoted in the Bloomberg Law article, "Hawaii 'Green Fee' Case to Test Limits of Federal Involvement." The article examines a court challenge to a Hawaii cruise ship fee that will allow the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to decide whether the federal government can participate in a case involving state taxing powers. 

Excerpt from "Hawaii 'Green Fee' Case to Test Limits of Federal Involvement"

"States and practitioners are watching the case closely because the DOJ intervened at the 11th hour and isn’t subject to the tax, said Deanna Newton, a Pepperdine University Law School tax professor.

“If the court allows this intervention, the federal government could step into more state tax disputes,” she said. “If the court rejects it, it reinforces that state tax matters stay mostly at the state level,” she said.

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