Walter Lyndon Pope
Judge Pope no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Pope decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Pope required evidence of an original agreement to conceal before treating later concealment as part of a tax-evasion conspiracy.
“Upon the authority of this decision of the Supreme Court we hold that it was error to permit this case to go to the jury.”
Procedural preferences
Pope resisted pleading-stage dismissal when the parties' negotiations and agreement required evidentiary development.
“the trial court should not have granted a dismissal on the record before it.”
Pope treated disputed negligence evidence as a jury question and emphasized the federal standard governing removal of a case from the jury.
“In considering a case of this kind, we should take note of the precedents established by the Supreme Court as to when it is proper to take a case from the jury.”
Cautions
Pope treated timely filing in the Tax Court as a jurisdictional prerequisite and deferred to supported credibility findings.
“Timely filing is jurisdictional.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial.”
“The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings in the district court.”
“The judgment of the district court is reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.”
“The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded with directions to enter judgment for the appellant.”
“The judgment is reversed with directions to dismiss the indictment.”
Caseload & timing
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A historical record
Judge Pope no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.