GERALD B. LEFCOURT, P.C. v. U.S.

No. 871, Docket 96-6151.

125 F.3d 79 (1997)

GERALD B. LEFCOURT, P.C., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 10, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence S. Goldman, New York City (Elizabeth M. Johnson, Goldman & Hafetz, New York City; Martin G. Weinberg, Oteri, Weinberg & Lawson, Boston, MA; Lawrence S. Horn, Robert J. Alter, Stills Cummis Zuckerman Radin Tischman Epstein & Gross, P.A., Newark, NJ; Gerald B. Lefcourt, Sheryl E. Reich, Lefcourt & Dratel, P.C., New York City, of Counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Neil M. Corwin, Asst. U.S. Attorney (Mary Jo White, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, of Counsel; Kay K. Gardiner, New York City, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee.

(Robert J. Jossen, Shereff, Friedman, Hoffman & Goodman, LLP, New York City; John H. Doyle III, Anderson Kill & Olick, P.C., New York City; Nathan Z. Dershowitz, Dershowitz & Eiger, New York City; Jeremy Gutman, New York City; Martin Adelman, New York City), for Amici Curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, New York Counsel of Defense Lawyers, New York Criminal Bar Association and New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Before: WALKER, PARKER, and HEANEY, Circuit Judges.


WALKER, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant Gerald B. Lefcourt, P.C. ("Lefcourt" or "the law firm") appeals from the May 16, 1996 judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Robert P. Patterson, Jr., District Judge), granting the United States' motion for summary judgment and denying plaintiff's cross-motion for summary judgment in plaintiff's tax refund action. In so doing, the district court affirmed the imposition...

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