No. 19-954

Brian E. Harriss v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-01-30
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: amendment-xvi civil-rights constitutional constitutional-interpretation direct-taxation due-process income-tax ninth-circuit standing statutory tax tax-law
Latest Conference: 2020-02-28
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Did the Ninth Circuit commit reversible and plain Constitutional error by recharacterizing, without evidence, Petitioner's right to refute Commissioner's presumptive, and not conclusive, evidence of its correctness, that all of Petitioner's earnings are excisable gains?

2. Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, without evidence and in conflict with Constitutional restrictions on the implementation of Congressional taxing power, err by affirming deficiencies on the premise that all earnings, and not just excisable gains, may be taxed directly without apportionment?

3. Alternatively, under this Court's decisions, the Amendment notwithstanding, is the income tax, as it is currently administered throughout the country, effectively a non-apportioned tax on the revenue of the people that is prohibited, or subject to apportionment by the U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Sections 2 and 9?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in recharacterizing the petitioner's right to refute the presumptive evidence of the Commissioner's correctness

Docket Entries

2020-03-02
Petition DENIED.
2020-02-12
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/28/2020.
2020-02-06
Waiver of right of respondent Cimmissioner of Internal Revenue to respond filed.
2020-01-22
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 2, 2020)
2019-10-24
Application (19A449) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until January 24, 2020.
2019-10-15
Application (19A449) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 25, 2019 to January 24, 2020, submitted to Justice Kagan.

Attorneys

Brian E. Harriss
Brian E. Harriss — Petitioner
Cimmissioner of Internal Revenue
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent