KUZMA v. I.R.S.

No. 591, Docket 86-6170.

821 F.2d 930 (1987)

Michael KUZMA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, and Marshall P. Cappelli, District Director, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 22, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Kuzma, pro se.

Roger P. Olsen, Asst. Atty. Gen., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Michael L. Paup, David E. Carmack, Gary D. Gray, Tax Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Roger P. Williams, U.S. Atty., Buffalo, N.Y., for W.D.N.Y., of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before LUMBARD, KEARSE and PRATT, Circuit Judges.


GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff Michael Kuzma seeks to recover $687.43 in costs incurred in the successful litigation of an action he brought pro se in the United States District Court for the Western District of New York against the Internal Revenue Service pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552 ("FOIA"), and the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. § 552a. Concluding that the only costs that may be imposed against the United...

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