Legal Opinion
United States v. Paolo (In Re Paolo)
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 8, 2010No. 09-2083PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
David Paolo appeals from a district court’s decision to abstain from deciding his tax dispute with the government as an adjunct to his personal bankruptcy proceeding. Paolo claims that Congress intended bankruptcy court to be an available forum to determine a debtor’s tax liability even where the debtor’s estate has no assets whose administration the tax issues might affect; the government argues otherwise. We do not decide whether .the district court has power to do what Paolo wants, concluding that the district court’s decision to abstain from doing so is not…
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