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Dean Allen Steeves, Acting Trustee of Brother's Keeper Ministries v. Internal Revenue Service

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 20-56065 · judgment November 18, 2021


Certiorari denied · October 3, 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.

Question presented

Whether both the U.S. District and U.S. Appellate Court usurped jurisdiction not given and declined to exercise jurisdiction given by denying Petitioner’s Motion to Quash an illegal IRS subpoena issued to a bank in the matter of an “integrated auxiliary” of a non-organization Private “church”, based upon a fabri­ cated procedural error and violations of Constitutional mandates and substantive Law.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Dean Allen Steeves

For respondent
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
21A730

Proceedings

  1. Oct 03 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jul 27 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
  3. Jul 25 2022
    Waiver of right of respondent Internal Revenue Service to respond filed.
  4. Jul 14 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 22, 2022)
  5. May 17 2022
    Application (21A730) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until July 17, 2022.
  6. May 12 2022
    Application (21A730) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from June 2, 2022 to July 17, 2022, submitted to Justice Kagan.