Maryland Ad Tax Ruling Bolsters Federal Case, Businesses Say

A Maryland Supreme Court ruling tossing a challenge to the state’s digital advertising tax leaves the state with no grounds to defend a parallel suit in federal court, business groups told the Fourth Circuit.

The state can no longer argue the case is moot now that the state court’s order has been vacated, the Chamber told the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in a letter docketed Thursday. “And the present absence of any declaratory relief highlights the need for expeditious resolution of the First Amendment issue.”

The Chamber asked the appeals court to order the federal trial ...