Legal Opinion
United States v. Euge
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 21, 1980No. 78-1453PublishedCited by 184 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Rehnquist
The United States sued in the District Court seeking enforcement of an Internal Revenue Service summons requiring respondent to appear and provide handwriting exemplars. Enforcement was denied by the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 587 F. 2d 25 (1978) (en banc), and we granted certiorari.1 441 U. S. 942. We now hold that Con*709gress has empowered the IRS to compel handwriting exemplars under its summons authority conferred by 26 U. S. C. § 7602.
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The facts are not in dispute. In October 1977, an agent in the Intelligence Division of the Internal Revenue Service was assigned to…
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