COHN v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 96-2035.

101 F.3d 486 (1996)

Arnold COHN and Eleanor L. Cohn, Petitioners-Appellants, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 22, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arnold Cohn (submitted), Eleanor L. Cohn, Wilmot, WI, pro se Petitioners-Appellants.

Gary R. Allen, Robert L. Baker, Teresa McLaughlin, Joan I. Oppenheimer, Department of Justice, Tax Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and CUMMINGS and EVANS, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This is a typical, and typically frivolous, tax protester appeal, the merits of which are the subject of an unpublished order also issued today. But there is a question about sanctions that merits a published opinion. Pursuant to the amended Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 38, the Internal Revenue Service filed a separate motion seeking the award of sanctions of $2,000 for the filing of a frivolous appeal. For the last ten years, we have been routinely...

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