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· 10/4/1988

Ivan K. Landreth Lucille Landreth v. Commissioner Internal Revenue Service

Citations

  • 859 F.2d 643
  • 62 A.F.T.R.2d (RIA) 5641
  • 1988 U.S. App. LEXIS 14167
  • 1988 WL 100815

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  • holding that a three-judge panel may reexamine circuit precedent \where Congress has retroactively clarified the meaning of the statute at issue\
  • treating parties' submissions regarding proposed Rule 155 ↩ computations as joint motions to reopen the record and receive new evidence
  • looking to both the text of the statutory changes and Congressional statements of purpose
  • only “unequivocal evidence” of legislative purpose in the history to a statute may override the plain meaning of the words therein
  • only \unequivocal evidence\ of legislative purpose in the history to a statute may override the plain meaning of the words therein

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Judges: Fletcher, Norris, MacBride

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