JUDICIAL WATCH, INC. v. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE

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Case Number:

1:13-cv-01559

Court:

District Of Columbia

Nature of Suit:

Freedom of Information Act

Judge:

Emmet G. Sullivan

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  1. July 29, 2015

    Judge Calls IRS Reasoning 'Nonsensical' In Audit Scandal Row

    A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday admonished Internal Revenue Service attorneys in one of several suits calling for the release of documents that conservative groups say may prove they were improperly targeted for audits, calling the attorneys' reasoning behind disobeying instructions in his earlier oral order "nonsensical."

  2. August 15, 2014

    IRS Must Explain Efforts To Find Ex-Director's Emails

    A D.C. federal judge ordered the Internal Revenue Service to detail its attempts to recover data from former director Lois Lerner's broken hard drive, including efforts to find emails sought by a conservative political group in a suit over the agency's politically-targeted auditing scandal.

  3. August 12, 2014

    IRS Says Ex-Head's Hard Drive Recycled Since It Was Ruined

    Several Internal Revenue Service information technology specialists told a D.C. federal judge on Monday that they fully scoured former official Lois Lerner's hard drive for lost emails tied to the agency's political targeting scandal before destroying the drive, in one of several lawsuits over the matter.

  4. July 10, 2014

    Judge Demands IRS Explain Missing Tea Party Emails

    A District of Columbia federal judge on Thursday ordered the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to explain how it lost a series of emails allegedly showing that the federal agency's targeting of tea party groups was orchestrated by its Washington headquarters.

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