I’ve often praised Judge Gustafson, a solicitous judge if ever there was one. See my blogposts “We’ll Come to You”, 9/18/12, “An Obliging Judge”, 10/8/12, and “We’ll Come to You – Part Deux”, 10/22/12. He’ll visit you when you’re in prison, answer your frivolous tax questions, and track you down when you don’t follow his orders.

Now Judge Gustafson has issued another order, this time to Travis Hawk Dickens, Docket No. 22248-11, filed 11/8/12, a Designated Order today, when no decisions have issued.

Travis Hawk is another missing person like Thomas John Babcock, the star of “We’ll Come to You – Part Deux”, op. cit. as the high-priced lawyers say.

IRS says Travis Hawk hasn’t responded to IRS’ letters or other correspondence, but Judge Gustafson “has not yet heard from Mr. Dickens and does not prejudge the case based on the IRS’s allegations. However, because of those allegations the Court would attempt to conduct a telephone pretrial conference, but does not have a working telephione [sic] number for Mr. Dickens. The Court therefore offers to Mr. Dickens these general reminders that the Court would have given in the phone conference….” Order, p. 1.

And Judge Gustafson gently but firmly suggests to Travis Hawk that he bestir himself, gird up his documentation, and exchange papers with IRS, stipulating fairly to what facts he agrees.

As I said in my blogpost “We’ll Come to You”, supra, “my kind of court”.