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· 4/7/1924

First National Bank of Greeley v. Board of County Commissioners

Citations

  • 264 U.S. 450
  • 44 S. Ct. 385
  • 68 L. Ed. 784
  • 1924 U.S. LEXIS 2526

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that “the plaintiff did not exhaust its remedies before the [state] administrative boards, and consequently cannot be heard by a judicial tribunal to assert the [constitutional] invalidity of the tax”
  • under principles of federal common law, Supreme Court requires district court to dismiss action for refund of taxes when adequate state remedy exists.
  • Fourteenth Amendment challenge assessment of state taxes barred by parties’ failure to exhaust their available state remedies
  • Cited by McNary; holding a litigant must fully exhaust administrative remedies before challenging alleged overassessment of taxes

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Judges: Sutherland

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