No. 18-1003

Norma L. Slone, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-02-01
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: appellate-review clearly-erroneous fact-finding factual-findings judicial-procedure standard-of-review tax tax-court tax-court-deference
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Latest Conference: 2019-03-15
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a court of appeals may reverse a fact-dependent ruling of the tax court without articulating any standard of review, finding that any of the tax court's factual findings were clearly erroneous, identifying which of the tax court's detailed factual findings with which it disagreed, and identifying facts it relied upon in deciding another issue that the tax court had never reached

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether a court of appeals may reverse a factdependent ruling of the tax court without articulating any standard of review, finding that any of the tax court’s factual findings were clearly erroneous, identifying which of the tax court’s detailed factual findings with which it disagreed, and identifying facts it relied upon in deciding another issue that the tax court had never reached.

Docket Entries

2019-03-18
Petition DENIED.
2019-02-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/15/2019.
2019-02-14
Waiver of right of respondent Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service to respond filed.
2019-01-30
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 4, 2019)
2018-11-20
Application (18A527) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until January 30, 2019.
2018-11-15
Application (18A527) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 30, 2018 to January 30, 2019, submitted to Justice Kagan.

Attorneys

Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Norma Slone, et al.
Stephen E SilverSilver Law PLC, Petitioner
Stephen E SilverSilver Law PLC, Petitioner