Direct Marketing Ass'n v. Brohl

Direct Marketing Association v. Brohl
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 8, 2014 Decided March 3, 2015
Full case name	Direct Marketing Association, Petitioner v. Barbara Brohl, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Revenue
Docket no.	13-1032
Citations	575 U.S. 1 (more) 135 S. Ct. 1124; 191 L. Ed. 2d 97
Case history
Prior	Direct Marketing Ass'n v. Huber, No. 1:10-cv-01546, 2012 WL 1079175 (D. Colo. Mar. 30, 2012); remanded sub. nom., Direct Marketing Ass'n v. Brohl, 735 F.3d 904 (10th Cir. 2013); cert. granted, 134 S. Ct. 2901 (2014).
Subsequent	On remand, 814 F.3d 1129 (10th Cir. 2016); cert. denied, 137 S. Ct. 591 (2016).
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Thomas, joined by unanimous
Concurrence	Kennedy
Concurrence	Ginsburg, joined by Breyer; Sotomayor (in part)
Laws applied
Tax Injunction Act, Dormant Commerce Clause

Direct Marketing Association v. Brohl, 575 U.S. 1 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a lawsuit by the Direct Marketing Association trade group about a Colorado law regarding reporting the state's tax requirements to customers and to the Colorado Department of Revenue is not barred by the Tax Injunction Act.^[1] While the case was reheard and found in favor of Colorado, the concurrence of Justice Anthony Kennedy provided a means for states to bring a challenge the ruling of Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, which has prevented states from collecting taxes from out-of-state vendors.