Legal Opinion
James Phillips v. McCollom
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 12, 2015No. 14-6190PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
In 2005, the City of Henderson, Kentucky, raised its taxes. The resulting $500 tab was too dear for James Phillips, a certified public accountant and Henderson resident. He assailed the tax hike before the city council, in the Henderson Gleaner, and in the course of advising his clients. When Tax Day 2006 came around, Phillips did not pay what he thought he should not owe. The city treated his civil disobedience as criminal misconduct. A Kentucky jury convicted Phillips of a misdemeanor for failure to file a return, but a state appellate court threw out the…
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