Dean Steeves v. Irs

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Dean Steeves v. Irs

Opinion

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS NOV 18 2021 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

DEAN ALLEN STEEVES, Acting Trustee No. 20-56065 of Brother’s Keeper Ministries, D.C. No. 3:20-cv-00978-LAB Plaintiff-Appellant,

v. MEMORANDUM*

UNITED STATES INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE,

Defendant-Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California Larry A. Burns, District Judge, Presiding

Submitted November 8, 2021**

Before: CANBY, TASHIMA, and MILLER, Circuit Judges.

Dean Allen Steeves appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment

dismissing his action seeking to quash a summons served on a third party, Wells

Fargo Bank, N.A., by the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”). We have jurisdiction

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo a dismissal for lack of jurisdiction.

Mollison v. United States, 568 F.3d 1073, 1075 (9th Cir. 2009). We affirm.

The district court properly dismissed Steeves’s action for lack of jurisdiction

because Steeves failed to file his petition to quash the IRS’s summons in a timely

manner. See I.R.C. § 7609(b)(2)(A) (a petition to quash an IRS summons must be

filed within 20 days from the date notice of the summons is given); Mollison, 568 F.3d at 1075 (“Section 7609(b)(2) constitutes the government’s consent to waive

sovereign immunity. . .” and limitations and conditions on that consent “. . . must

be strictly observed. . . .”).

We do not consider arguments and allegations raised for the first time on

appeal. See Padgett v. Wright, 587 F.3d 983, 985 n.2 (9th Cir. 2009).

AFFIRMED.

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Status
Unpublished