ROBINSON v. U.S.

No. 90-1242.

920 F.2d 1157 (1990)

Albert E. ROBINSON and Rose M. Robinson, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided December 21, 1990.

As Amended January 23, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark E. Cedrone (argued), Thomas W. Ostrander, Duane, Morris & Heckscher, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellants.

Shirley D. Peterson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Gary R. Allen, David English Carmack, David A. Hubbert (argued), Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Michael M. Baylson, U.S. Atty., of counsel), for appellee.

Before STAPLETON, COWEN and WEIS, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

WEIS, Circuit Judge.

Asserting a procedural defect, taxpayers challenged an Internal Revenue Service lien via a suit under 28 U.S.C. § 2410(a). The district court dismissed for lack of jurisdiction concluding that the taxpayers' attack necessarily struck at the underlying assessment, a result it believed was barred by this Court's precedent. We reverse. Our prohibition against assaults on the "merits of an assessment" applies to...

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