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On September 4, 1843, the circuit clerk issued a summons for Clarissa Wren to appear in court on October 16, 1843. [3] Clarissa Wren proceeded to hire local law partners William F. Bryan and Elihu N. Powell, who also later became a judge of the state 16th Circuit, and law partners Stephen T. Logan and future U.S. president Abraham Lincoln from ...
Benson, [15] a criminal case, Benson himself raised the Sixteenth Amendment argument, which was rejected by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. In this phase of the case, his conviction for tax evasion and willful failure to file tax returns was overturned on other grounds and the case was remanded to the trial court.
It was passed by Congress in 1909 in response to the 1895 Supreme Court case of Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. The Sixteenth Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on February 3, 1913, and effectively overruled the Supreme Court's ruling in Pollock .
Jackson County Circuit Court announced Judge Jalilah Otto as the court’s newest presiding judge and the first African American to take on the role in the court’s nearly 200-year history.
The earliest reported court cases where Benson's arguments were actually raised appear to be United States v. Wojtas [10] and United States v. House. [11] Benson testified in the House case to no avail. The Benson contention was comprehensively addressed by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in United States v. Thomas: [12]
The potential forum follows a recent Special House Committee meeting on judicial reform, where Pascoe and 16th Circuit Solicitor Kevin Brackett were scolded by a panel of House lawmakers ...
The thirteenth is the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit which has nationwide jurisdiction over appeals of certain, specific subject matter, for example, patent law. Congress has authorized 179 judgeships, [ 1 ] though the total number of judges will be higher than 179 because of some judges electing senior status.
This category is for court cases in the United States dealing with the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which established the power of Congress to levy an unapportioned income tax.