DALTON v. C.I.R.

No. 11-2217.

682 F.3d 149 (2012)

Arthur DALTON, Jr., and Beverly Dalton, Petitioners, Appellees, v. COMMISSIONER of INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 20, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bethany B. Hauser , Attorney, Tax Division, with whom Tamara W. Ashford , Deputy Assistant Attorney General, and Thomas J. Clark , Attorney, Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice, were on brief, for appellant.

John W. Geismar , with whom Daniel L. Cummings and Norman, Hanson & DeTroy, LLC were on brief, for appellees.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, SELYA and BOUDIN, Circuit Judges.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal turns primarily on the standard of review that courts should apply when examining conclusions reached by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) following a collection due process (CDP) hearing. See 26 U.S.C. § 6330(b). While courts generally have agreed that review in this context is for abuse of discretion, no court has had the occasion to parse that standard and analyze how it plays out with respect to subsidiary factual...

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