Nextel Asks Supreme Court to Review Pennsylvania Net Loss Case

Nextel Communications of the Mid-Atlantic Inc. wants the nation’s highest court to reverse a decision from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that denied the company a $3.9 million tax refund even though the court agreed the state collected it illegally.

The Sprint Corp. subsidiary argues that the court’s October 2017 decision violated the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by not granting the company any relief despite its finding that the state’s provision on net loss carryover deductions as applied to Nextel in 2007 was unconstitutional.

Under the Fourteenth Amendment, “a state that deprives a person ...