This is an appeal from the district court's judgment of $15,000 against individual officers of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). We find that the district court lacked jurisdiction over the action because of sovereign immunity.
On September 17, 1976 plaintiff-appellee Angel Burgos Fuentes purchased real property in Puerto Rico from the Internal Revenue Service at a tax sale. According...
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