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Mark Anthony Blommer v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 20-73394 · judgment November 18, 2021


Certiorari denied · October 11, 2022
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

  1. For a notice of deficiency to exist, must not said notices comply with the statutes?

  2. If a taxpayer files a statement as instructed to by the Internal Revenue Service, is it lawful for the Internal Revenue Service to then file Form 1040 Sub­ stitutes for Return against a taxpayer. And is it lawful for the Internal Revenue Service to then create non statutory notices of deficiency based on those Form 1040 Substitutes for Return.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Mark Anthony Blommer

For respondent
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 11 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Sep 14 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/7/2022.
  3. Sep 06 2022
    Waiver of right of respondent CIR to respond filed.
  4. Jun 01 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 7, 2022)