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Thiokol Corporation v. Department Of Treasury

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Declined by some courts
Court
Sixth Circuit
Citation
987 F.2d 376
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
116 of 116
Citing cases (total)
225
Treatment dates
1997
Declined by some courts
At least one reviewed court has declined to follow this case. No reviewed court has overruled it. Thiokol Corporation v. Department of Treasury has been declined to follow on one issue. All 116 flagged citations have been read.
More on how this was screened

In Chase Manhattan Bank v. City of San Francisco, the Ninth Circuit expressly refused to follow Thiokol's conclusion that the Tax Injunction Act permitted a federal declaration of ERISA preemption. This one confirmed treatment is listed below. Other citing opinions applied Thiokol's sovereign immunity rules or distinguished different relief without rejecting its holdings.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

225 later cases cite Thiokol Corporation v. Department Of Treasury; 116 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Declined to follow

  • The Ninth Circuit refused to follow Thiokol's ruling that the Tax Injunction Act allowed a federal action for a declaration of ERISA preemption.

    Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. v. City of San Francisco · Ninth Circuit · filed

    Chase nevertheless asks us to follow the holdings of the Fifth and Sixth Circuits in Thiokol and E-Systems to the extent that they concluded that the TIA did not preclude an action for a declaration of preemption in federal court. We decline to do so, for those cases rest on reasoning which is in conflict with the law of this circuit.
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