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This document is the opinion from the Supreme Court case Coolidge v. Long, which ruled on whether Massachusetts could impose an inheritance tax on a trust created before the relevant tax law was passed. The Court summarizes the facts of the trust and relevant tax laws. It then holds that the tax violates the Contracts Clause and Due Process Clause because the rights under the trust vested before the law took effect, so Massachusetts could not retroactively tax property rights that had already vested under t

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