No. 19-366

Walter C. Lange v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-09-19
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: due-process eighth-amendment excise fifth-amendment first-amendment income-tax indirect-tax tax-code title-26 vagueness
Key Terms:
DueProcess Securities
Latest Conference: 2019-10-18
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the income tax under Title 26 of the U.S. Code is an indirect tax and therefore exclusively an excise, duty or impost arising from the exercise of a federal privilege

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Whether the income tax under Title 26 of the ; U.S. Code is an indirect tax and therefore exclusively an excise, duty or impost arising from the exercise of a federal privilege, whether Petitioner’s adhering to this legal precept and historical fact can be judicially considered frivolous and sanctionable, whether codifying a statute without repealing its prior version leaves the prior statute controlling as a matter of Fifth Amendment due process, whether a Tax Court’s de novo review of a prior IRS administrative ruling reached below that ruling and redefined the objectionable conduct without prior notice in violation of the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment, whether the final decision regarding frivolous ; conduct was based on language that should be considered void under the vagueness doctrine of the Fifth Amendment, and whether each Court’s monetary sanction is excessive or inflicts cruel and unusual punishment in violation either of the Eighth Amendment or ; Petitioner’s good faith exercise of his valid beliefs and his First Amendment rights to petition the government for redress of grievance. i

Docket Entries

2019-10-21
Petition DENIED.
2019-10-02
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/18/2019.
2019-09-25
Waiver of right of respondent CIR to respond filed.
2019-07-08
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 21, 2019)

Attorneys

CIR
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Walter Lange
Walter C. Lange — Petitioner
Walter C. Lange — Petitioner