Legal Opinion
Taliaferro v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 25, 2017No. 16-12126 Non-Argument CalendarPublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Per curiam
Irvin E. Taliaferro filed this pro se action seeking to enjoin the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) from issuing notices of levy to collect unpaid income taxes and to force the IRS to return to him all monies already seized as a result of its levies. The district court dismissed Taliaferro’s complaint sua sponte, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e), for frivolity and for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction.
On appeal, Taliaferro first argues that the district court procedurally erred in dismissing his complaint because, in his view, § 1915(e) does not apply to non-prisoners. Next, on the substance…
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