David W. Woods v. Internal Revenue Service

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• finding sanctions inappropriate against a pro se litigant, even though the court had “no doubt that this is a frivolous appeal”
• declining to impose sanctions on a pro se plaintiff although his appeal clearly was frivolous
• finding “there can be no doubt that this is a frivolous appeal . . . [h]owever, since this suit was filed pro se, we conclude that sanctions would be inappropriate.”
• declining to impose Rule 38 sanctions because of the appellant’s pro se status
• “There can be no doubt that this is a frivolous appeal and we would not hesitate to order sanctions if appellant had been represented by counsel. However, since this suit was filed pro se, we conclude that sanctions would be inappropriate.”
• “There can be no doubt that this is a frivolous appeal and we would not hesitate to order sanctions if appellant had been represented by counsel. However, since this suit was filed pro se, we conclude that sanctions would be inappropriate.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).