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3 unusual facts about Quill Corp. v. North Dakota


Quill Corp. v. North Dakota

In 2011, Senators Dick Durbin (D-Illinois), Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee) introduced a bill that would overrule the decision and compel businesses to collect sales taxes on out-of-state internet, mail order, or telephone sales.

Sales tax

An attempt to require a Delaware e-commerce vendor to collect North Dakota tax was overturned by the court in the 1992 decision on Quill Corp. v. North Dakota.

Tax-free shopping

In National Bellas Hess, Inc. v. Department of Revenue of the State of Illinois and Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, the Court concluded that the Commerce Clause and Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution require that there be a nexus between the taxing state and the vendor of goods or services, in the form of a physical presence.


2011 Missouri River Flood

All six major dams along the Missouri River released record amounts of water to prevent overflow which led to flooding threatening several towns and cities along the river from Montana to Missouri; in particular Bismarck, North Dakota; Pierre, South Dakota; Dakota Dunes, South Dakota; South Sioux City, Nebraska, Sioux City, Iowa; Omaha, Nebraska; Kansas City, Missouri; Jefferson City, Missouri, as well as putting countless smaller towns at risk.

Alameda Dam

It provides flood protection and irrigation for this area of Saskatchewan, along with protection for Minot, North Dakota.

American Herro

The documentary covers Herro's early childhood as a Kurdish-Muslim refugee from Iraq as she fled with her family from Iraqi Kurdistan while under Saddam Hussein's regime to Minot, North Dakota, as well as her academic success and successful career as a diplomat stationed in Bosnia, Turkey, Iraq, and elsewhere.

Amidon, North Dakota

When the 2010 census reported its population as 20 it became the second-smallest incorporated county seat after Brewster, Nebraska, population 17.

Andrew H. Burke

He next became a cashier of the First National Bank of Casselton and then, for six years, the Treasurer of Cass County.

Arthur O. Beyer

His funeral was held in Valley City, North Dakota, and he was buried in Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in his hometown of St. Ansgar, Iowa.

Arthur Pember

Mr. Pember died on 3 April 1886 in LaMoure, North Dakota according to an obituary note in the 4 April 1886 edition of the New York Times.

Backoo, North Dakota

John Mountain, one of its first settlers, is reported to have named the town after the Barcoo River in his home country of Australia.

Becky Fischer

Fischer was approached in 2004 by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady about filming her "Kids on Fire" camp outside Devils Lake, North Dakota, as well as portions of her "Changing the World through Prayer Conference" at Christ Triumphant Church in Lee's Summit, Missouri (a suburb of Kansas City), where Fischer is ordained.

Cavendish Farms

In 2001 the company purchased a french fry processing plant in Jamestown, North Dakota.

Center, North Dakota

West of Nelson Lake there is the static inverter plant of HVDC Square Butte.

Chuck Suchy

One of his folk ballads, featured on his Much to Share, Dancing Dakota, and Dakota Breezes CDs, is The Story of Hazel Miner. The folk ballad tells the story of Hazel Miner, a 15-year-old girl who died saving her brother and sister during a March 1920 blizzard in Center, North Dakota.

Dorothy Adams

Dorothy Adams (January 8, 1900; Hannah, North Dakota – March 16, 1988; Woodland Hills, California) was an American character actress.

Fort Berthold Community College

The Fort Berthold Community College (FBCC) is a tribally controlled college chartered by the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation headquarters at New Town, North Dakota.

Fort Ransom, North Dakota

The original site of the fort is located to the southwest of the town of Fort Ransom and 3 miles south of Fort Ransom State Park.

George H. Walsh

He also served in the North Dakota House of Representatives and was speaker When the territorial legislature authorized a new county in 1881, they named it Walsh County in his honor.

Gladstone, North Dakota

It was named for British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.

Hankinson

Hankinson, North Dakota, a city in Richland County, North Dakota, United States

Haram Township, Bottineau County, North Dakota

Early Norwegian settlers in the area named the township after Haram, Norway.

Jackie Lockhart

She started in the buzzing atmosphere that enveloped the Scottish Championships in Glasgow, where her team - largely inexperienced at the highest level apart from herself at skip - overcame Rhona Martin's rink in a three-match final to claim the right to represent Scotland at the World Championships in Bismarck, North Dakota, ahead of the newly-famed Olympic gold medallists.

James M. McPherson

Born in Valley City, North Dakota, he graduated from St. Peter High School, and he received his Bachelor of Arts at Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, Minnesota) in 1958 (from which he graduated magna cum laude), and his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1963.

Johan Bojer

In 1923, Bojer journeyed to Litchville, North Dakota, to research the lives of the Norwegian immigrants who had settled there.

John D. McKenzie

He was born in Gilby, North Dakota, the son of Alexander McKenzie and Isabella Douglas.

Kintyre, North Dakota

The community was originally named Campbell for Dugald and Hugh Campbell, brothers who ranched there; it is now named Kintyre for the Kintyre Peninsula in Argyll, Scotland.

Korn Digital EP 2

The EP contains three tracks, including a demo of "Holding All These Lies" by Jonathan Davis, a live recording of "System" from the Queen of the Damned soundtrack recorded in Fargo, North Dakota on May 18, 2010, and an exclusive in-studio music video of "People Pleaser" not included in the Korn III: Remember Who You Are deluxe edition package.

KTVE

However, J. B. Fuqua, who owned KTVE at the time, wanted to get that station in line with WTVW in Evansville, Indiana and KTHI (now KVLY-TV) in Fargo, North Dakota, both of which were ABC affiliates he had just purchased.

Lewis A. Pick

Pick City, North Dakota located by the Garrison Dam on the Missouri River was founded in 1946 and named for him.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Grand Forks County, North Dakota

The most recent listings, in 2010, are the University of North Dakota Historic District and WPA Stone Structures in Memorial Park and Calvary Cemetery, and in 2011, The Kegs Drive-In.

National Whistleblowers Center

In 1999, former FBI special agent Jane Turner brought to the attention of her management team serious misconduct concerning failures to investigate and prosecute crimes against children in Indian Country and in the Minot, North Dakota community.

North Dakota Highway 17

North Dakota Highway 17 begins at an intersection with ND 3 and ND 60 east of Barton in Pierce County.

North Dakota Highway 1804

Highway 1804 begins at the border between North Dakota and South Dakota near Pollock, South Dakota, and continues uninterrupted along the north east side of the Missouri River through Emmons, Burleigh, McLean, Mountrail, and Williams counties.

Parshall, North Dakota

Parshall, North Dakota, is perhaps best known nationally for its namesake Parshall Oil Field, which surrounds the town.

Pembina, North Dakota

Started by the French as a fur trading post for commerce with the American Indians, it was also tied to trade for American Bison.

Phyllis Frelich

Frelich was born in Devils Lake, North Dakota to deaf parents and is the oldest of 9 children (all of whom are also deaf).

Plains Art Museum

In October 1997, the Museum relocated to a renovated turn-of-the-century International Harvester warehouse in downtown Fargo, North Dakota.

Porcupine, North Dakota

It lies only a few minutes' drive from the city of Selfridge.

Raleigh, North Dakota

The name comes from Sir Walter Raleigh and was settled by a wave of German Russians who had previously settled near Strasburg in Emmons County.

Ray, North Dakota

Mary Sherman Morgan, inventor of Hydyne, which was combined with liquid oxygen to propel the first US rocket into orbit (1958)

Robert H. Bahmer

He earned his bachelor's degree from Valley City State University in Valley City, North Dakota, his master's from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a doctorate from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Roderick Rose

Roderick Rose (born Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada May 15, 1838; died Jamestown, North Dakota, September 10, 1903) was a Canadian-born American educator, lawyer, politician, and judge.

Saint Michael, North Dakota

Constantine Scollen the famous missionary priest was resident at St John from early 1887 until 1890

Sentinel Butte, North Dakota

Sentinel Butte was founded in 1902 along the transcontinental rail line of the Northern Pacific Railway.

Sheyenne River

Thanks to a diversion canal completed near Horace, the major Sheyenne River cities fared well in the 1997 Red River Flood which devastated the cities of Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota.

Sister cities of Grand Forks, North Dakota

While the relationship with Ishim faded, Grand Forks found a new sister in Awano, Japan.

Summer of ’98

Maris, a native of Minnesota spent much of his youth in Fargo, North Dakota and Lupica writes about Maris, who died in 13 years earlier in 1985, his hometown and his boyhood friends.

The Waylors

After a show in Clear Lake, Iowa, Holly chartered a plane for himself, Allsup and Jennings to avoid a long bus trip to Fargo, North Dakota.

University Village, Grand Forks, North Dakota

Formerly known as the Bronson Property, the land was donated to UND by local attorney and judge Harrison A. Bronson who, in 1895, became the recipient of the first master's degree awarded by UND.

Walter C. Taylor

He entered the newspaper business in 1890, purchasing Towner News, a small newspaper from Towner, North Dakota.

WDAZ-TV

Owned by Forum Communications of Fargo, which also owns the Grand Forks Herald, WDAZ has facilities on South Washington Street in Grand Forks near Kmart and a news bureau and sales office on U.S. Highway 2 in Devils Lake.


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