tax-fraud

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-988 Stephanie Murrin v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Third Circuit 2026-02-19 Pending circuit-split innocent-taxpayer-liability internal-revenue-code statute-of-limitations tax-assessment-limitations tax-fraud Whether, under 26 U.S.C. § 6501(c)(1), the IRS may assess tax beyond the Code's three-year limitations period based solely on the fraudulent intent of…
25A778 Stephanie Murrin v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Third Circuit 2026-01-05 Application innocent-taxpayer iRS-assessment limitations-period section-6501 tax-court tax-fraud Whether the IRS can assess taxes beyond the usual three-year deadline when the taxpayer's preparer intended to file a false or fraudulent return, but …
25-739 Herbert Hirsch, et al. v. United States Tax Court Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived administrative-proceedings constitutional-rights jury-trial mandamus seventh-amendment tax-fraud 1. Whether the court of appeals must issue a writ of mandamus when a petitioner is erroneously denied a jury trial, without considering whether the ri…
25-323 Michael F. Kissell v. Pennsylvania Office of the Budget Legal Office, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights professional-misconduct retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud title-vii 1. Whether subject matter jurisdiction matter was properly invoked involving a continuing violation of Title VII, 1983 etc. in the underlying claims…
23-5335 Young Bok Song v. Tony Parker, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights claim-interpretation constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process section-1983 standing tax-fraud WHETHER THE TN U.S. DISTRICT COURT AND U.S. COURT OF APPEALS ARE INCORRECT IN READING SCHOLL V. MNUCHIN, # 20-CV-05309 (N.D. CAL. SEP. 24, 2020), 489 …
21-6090 Olry Maurival v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy crawford-confrontation criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency false-tax-return false-tax-returns hearsay-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence tax-fraud I. WHETHER THE VERDICT OF GUILT WAS SUPPORTED BY SUFFCIENT EVIDENCE TO SUSTAIN A CONVICTION, AND THE EVIDENCE, VIEWED IN A LIGHT MOST FAVORABLE TO THE…
20-1103 Michael F. Kissell v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Third Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights hostile-environment hostile-work-environment jury-award procedural-due-process reinstatement retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud title-vii 1. Whether subject matter jurisdiction matter was properly invoked involving a continuing violation of Title VII, 1983 etc in the underlying claims …
20-812 Lisa M. Folajtar v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Third Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Amici (5) 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights felons felony-prohibition firearm-possession nonviolent-crimes second-amendment self-defense tax-fraud Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which permanently prohibits nearly all felons—even those convicted of nonviolent crimes—from possessing firearms for se…
19-6840 Manuel Antonio Severino v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution legal-duty mens-rea statutory-interpretation tax-fraud willfulness Whether, in a prosecution for aiding and assisting in the preparation or filing of false tax returns under 26 U.S.C. § 7206(2), the government is requ…
19-5757 Fulvio Flete-Garcia v. United States First Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-identity-theft conspiracy conversion-of-government-property evidentiary-hearing government-as-victim government-property identity-theft loss-calculation sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement tax-fraud tax-fraud-conspiracy victim-enhancement 1. Whether, in determining the sentence for a tax-fraud conspiracy where the defendant is charged with conversion of government property and aggravate…
19-139 Delmar Hardy v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied cheek-v-united-states criminal-tax good-faith good-faith-reliance jury-instruction jury-instructions professional-reliance reliance-on-accountant specific-intent tax-fraud tax-law tax-professional willfulness 1. Does this Court's decision in Cheek v. United States, 498 U.S. 192 (1991), require a court to apply a subjective standard in determining whether th…
18-8581 Robert Nicholas Brooks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-fraud commerce-clause constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-indictment sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud venue wire-fraud Question 1: Whether the Supreme Court is obliged to address and determine whether the District and Appellate Courts violated Petitioner's Fifth and Si…
18-1133 Henry J. Langer, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response Waived 8th-circuit burden-of-proof civil-procedure clear-and-convincing-evidence penalty-assessment tax-court tax-court-review tax-evasion tax-fraud tax-liability tax-penalties Whether Respondent has proved by clear and convincing evidence that Henry J. Langer is liable for the fraud penalty for the years 2011, 2012, and 2013…
18-1066 Tracy Chang and Howard Hsu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response Waived criminal-defense criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-defense good-faith-reliance jury-instructions search-warrant standing tax-fraud 1. Defendants requested instructions on their theory of defense, that they relied in good faith upon the professional advice of their CPAs when prepar…
18-6128 Norman Douglas Diamond v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fraud irs irs-corruption jurisdiction jurisdictional-notice overpayment-refund statutory-guarantee statutory-notice tax tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction tax-deficiency tax-evasion tax-fraud Former IRS employees have been for fraud and embezzlement of income tax withholdings originally collected legally. The IRS still does not credit petit…