High Court Delays Consideration of Skadden’s Retroactive Tax Case

The Supreme Court wants Michigan’s Department of Treasury to respond to petitions filed by Skadden Arps and several companies arguing that its retroactive application of a tax law violates the U.S. Constitution.

The court also delayed a conference in a case concerning a similar tax law in Washington state, possibly so justices can consider the two matters together in determining whether to revisit the constitutionality of retroactive taxation for the first time in more than 20 years.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and several businesses — Sonoco Products Co., Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., International Business Machines Corp., Gillette ...