Wheeler v. Internal Revenue Service

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• observing that fees are warranted where “government officials have been recalcitrant in their opposition to a valid claim or have been otherwise engaged in obdurate behavior”
• “[I]t would seem tantamount to a penalty to require the wronged citizen to pay his [or her] attorney’s fees to make the government comply with the law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).