Couch Moxley Featherston[1] (June 6, 1914 – April 10, 1998) was a judge of the United States Tax Court from 1967 to 1983.
[2] He worked in the United States Department of Justice, Tax Division from 1945 to 1949, and was assistant general counsel for the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs from 1949 to 1951, returning to the DOJ from 1951 to 1967.
[2] In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Featherston as judge of the United States Tax Court.
[4][3] Among them was a 1983 case outlining the steps that the owner of a home computer would need to take to claim the device as a business expense.
[5] Featherston married Rose Darlington Ross in 1938, with whom he had two sons and a daughter.