TEXAS FARM BUREAU v. UNITED STATES

No. 82-1355.

725 F.2d 307 (1984)

TEXAS FARM BUREAU, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied May 21, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glenn L. Archer, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Tax Div., Michael L. Paup, Chief, Appellate, Robert T. Duffy, Sec., Jo-Ann Horn, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellant.

Peeler Williams, Jr., Waco, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, GOLDBERG and POLITZ, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied May 21, 1984.

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

With Congress' dedicated cultivation, the tax code has prospered and thrived, achieving a rate of growth that tillers of non-legislative soil would be hard-pushed to match. Despite the code's phenomenal size and detail, courts must still contend with a particularly persistent and pesterous ambiguity. The problem lies not in separating the seed from the chaff, but in telling debt...

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