Legal Opinion
United States of America, and Ann Marie Govine, Revenue Officer, Internal Revenue Service v. David Edwin Edgerton
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 10, 1984No. 723, Docket 83-6220PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:
This case presents the anomalous situation of a conscientious district court displaying the patience of Job in dealing with an obstreperous taxpayer determined to thwart and mock the very concepts of justice which he solemnly invoked in the name of the Constitution of the United States. And yet we are compelled to vacate the contempt order which the district court felt constrained to enter. We do so because a district court, in exercising the awesome power of contempt, must turn square corners.
The appeal is from an order entered July 20, 1983 in the District of…
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