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Friday, August 08, 2014

IRS Notches Legal Win Over Lost Tea Party Emails

The IRS won what might be Round One in a series of contests pitting tea party groups against the agency, with a federal judge rejecting a conservative group’s bid for a court-appointed forensics expert to hunt for ex-official Lois Lerner’s lost emails.

Judge Reggie Walton of the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia said True the Vote’s lawsuit against the IRS failed to show “irreparable harm” in its injunction relief request and that “the public interest weighs strongly against the type of injunctive relief the plaintiff seeks.”

“Despite the general distrust of the defendants expressed by the plaintiff, the Court has no factual basis to concur with that distrust … and therefore concludes that the issuance of an injunction will not further aid in the recovery of the emails, if such recovery is possible, but will rather only duplicate and potentially interfere with ongoing investigative activities,” he wrote in a court memorandum posted Wednesday afternoon.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

So, what, did True the Vote have a first year law student in their corner? This is the federal government you're fighting, folks.

By the way, what was the judge, Republican or Democrat? If Democrat, no surprise. If Republican, you people really need to get your affairs in order.

Anonymous said...

Of course they're gonna cover each other's backs - it's the Democrat way.

Kinda like HR covering up the management indiscretions at the expense of the regular worker!