In Re Lowell H. Becraft, Jr. United States of America v. Kenneth W. Nelson

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• holding that an attorney’s “record of 27 advancing wholly meritless claims” demonstrated the “necessity of sending a 28 message . . . that frivolous arguments will no longer be tolerated”
• deeming assertions that Federal laws apply only to U.S. territories and the District of Columbia to have \no semblance of merit\
• imposing, sua sponte, sanctions on attorney for raising unapportioned direct tax argument on appeal
• factoring a party’s litigation history into the analysis

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