James Luther Cochrane - Page 1

                                   107 T.C. No. 2                                     


                               UNITED STATES TAX COURT                                


                 JAMES LUTHER COCHRANE, Petitioner v. COMMISSIONER                    
                           OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent                            


               Docket No. 2002-95.                    Filed August 7, 1996.           


                    P was ordered to file responses to R's requests                   
               for admission.  P's subsequent responses to the                        
               requests for admission were evasive and incomplete and                 
               contained time-worn tax protester statements.  R moved                 
               for sanctions, asking that the matter in the requested                 
               admissions be taken as established for purposes of this                
               case.                                                                  
               Rule 90(c), Tax Court Rules of Practice and                            
               Procedure, generally requires that a party upon whom a                 
               request for admission is served specifically admit or                  
               deny the proposed admission.  Rule 104(c), Tax Court                   
               Rules of Practice and Procedure, provides that the                     
               Court may sanction a party who fails to obey an order                  
               with respect to the provisions of Rule 90 by ordering                  
               that the matter in the requested admissions be taken as                
               established for purposes of the case.  Rule 104(d)                     
               provides that an evasive or incomplete response to a                   
               requested admission is to be treated as a failure to                   
               respond.                                                               





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