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WEISBART v. U.S. DEPT. OF TREASURY

Docket No. 99-6134.

222 F.3d 93 (2000)

Emanuel WEISBART, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY and Internal Revenue Service, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 28, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emanuel Weisbart, East Hampton, New York, Plaintiff-Appellant, pro se.

Kenneth W. Rosenberg, Attorney, Tax Division, Department of Justice, (Loretta C. Argrett, Assistant Attorney General, Richard Farber, Attorney, Tax Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., on the brief; Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: MINER, McLAUGHLIN, and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.

McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge:

Judge Learned Hand once described the Tax Code as a "fantastic labyrinth[]" whose words "merely dance before my eyes in a meaningless procession: cross-reference to cross-reference, exception upon exception . . . ." Learned Hand, Thomas Walter Swan, 57 Yale L.J. 167, 169 (1947). Like Theseus of old we are compelled to enter this labyrinth—but without his ball of thread.

Emanuel Weisbart's 1991 income tax return was...

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