United States Fifth Circuit

The United States is not liable to plaintiff when agents make unnecessary oral disclosures of tax information and implied a criminal investigation of the plaintiff, as long as the agents were acting in good faith, despite an erroneous interpretation of the law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/13/2000
• Published 12/13/2000

Judges

• W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:, Before DAVIS and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges, and POGUE , District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William Andrew Roberts (argued), Dallas, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paula Junghans, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen. (argued), Jonathan S. Cohen, Robert J. Branman, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Tax Div., Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellee.