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Case
Subject
Question(s) Presented
Date
December 11, 1989
Case
United States v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.
Subject
Tax
Question(s) Presented
“[W]hether ‘accumulated profits’ in the indirect tax credit provision of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 are to be measured in accordance with United States or foreign tax principles.”
Date
November 28, 1989
Case
United States v. Sperry Corp.
Subject
Foreign Relations Authorization Act
Question(s) Presented
“Section 502 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987, requires the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to deduct and pay into the United States Treasury...
Date
June 17, 1988
Case
Christianson v. Colt Industries Operating Corp.
Subject
Jurisdiction
Question(s) Presented
1. “[Whether] the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ha[d] jurisdiction of the appeal from the district court judgment entered on July 19, 1985.” 2. “Whether a U.S....
Date
February 23, 1988
Case
Department of the Navy v. Egan
Subject
MSPB
Question(s) Presented
“[W]hether the Merit Systems Protection Board (Board) has authority by statute to review the substance of an underlying decision to deny or revoke a security clearance in the course of...
Date
January 25, 1988
Case
United States v. Fausto
Subject
Tucker Act
Question(s) Presented
“[W]hether the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, which affords an employee in respondent’s situation no review of the agency’s decision, precludes . . . a Claims Court suit.”
Date
April 22, 1987
Case
United States v. General Dynamics Corp.
Subject
Tax
Question(s) Presented
“[W]hether an accrual-basis taxpayer providing medical benefits to its employees may deduct at the close of the taxable year an estimate of its obligation to pay for medical care obtained...
Date
November 4, 1986
Case
O'Connor v. United States
Subject
Tax
Question(s) Presented
Whether § 2 of Article XV of the Agreement in Implementation of Article III of the Panama Canal Treaty “constitutes an express exemption of . . . Commission salaries from...
Date
June 23, 1986
Case
United States v. American Bar Endowment
Subject
Tax
Question(s) Presented
1. “[W]hether income that a tax-exempt charitable organization derives from offering group insurance to its members constitutes ‘unrelated business income’ subject to tax under §§ 511 through 513 of the Internal...
Date
June 3, 1986
Case
United States v. Hughes Properties, Inc.
Subject
Tax
Question(s) Presented
“Whether the Federal Circuit correctly determined the proper time for deduction by an accrual basis taxpayer engaged in the business of gaming of an expense represented by its unpaid liability...
Date
April 22, 1986
Case
United States v. American College of Physicians
Subject
Tax
Question(s) Presented
“Whether income derived by a tax-exempt medical association from the sale of commercial advertising space in its monthly journal is ‘unrelated business income’ subject to tax under Sections 511 through...
Date
June 24, 1985
Case
Cornelius v. Nutt
Subject
MSPB
Question(s) Presented
“The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, 5 U.S.C. 7701(c)(2)(A), empowers the Merit Systems Protection Board to set aside adverse agency action taken against a federal employee if the employee...
Date
March 20, 1985
Case
Lindahl v. Office of Personnel Management
Subject
MSPB
Question(s) Presented
“This case presents two questions of substantial importance to the administration of the Government’s retirement annuity program.” 1. “The first is whether [5 U.S.C.] § 8347(c) bars judicial review altogether of...