Tax Protester Faces Justice Dept.
LAS VEGAS — Can a man be held in contempt of court and jailed for selling copies of public records?

Irwin Schiff, the nation's best-known proponent of the idea that people are not required to pay income taxes, has put that provocative question to Lloyd D. George, a federal district judge who held a hearing here on Thursday on a Justice Department request that Mr. Schiff be put behind bars for civil contempt.