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JANSEN v. UNITED STATES

No. 77-1480.

567 F.2d 828 (1977)

Judith Kaye JANSEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided December 27, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David E. Krause (argued), Minneapolis, Nadine Strossen, Minneapolis, Minn., and Owen Gleason, Legal Counsel, Minnesota Civil Liberties Union, Minneapolis, Minn., on brief, for plaintiff-appellant.

Carleton D. Powell, Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (argued), M. Carr Ferguson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Gilbert E. Andrews, Leonard J. Henzke, Jr., Washington, D. C., and Andrew W. Danielson, U. S. Atty., Minneapolis, Minn., on brief, for defendant-appellee.

Before ROSS, STEPHENSON and WEBSTER, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

This is another case in which a single person challenges the constitutionality of the income tax structure. Judith Jansen contends that the tax rate table is discriminatory against single taxpayers in that the tax applicable to a single taxpayer is substantially more than that which would be applicable to a married person with the same income who files a joint return with his spouse. She alleges that the differential...

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