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Gail Goldberg, et vir v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, No. 22-1084, 22-1085 · judgment July 14, 2023


Certiorari denied · January 8, 2024
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

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

Questions presented

  1. Has the ruling of the Seventh Circuit rendered mandatory statutory notice requirements not relevant, with a consequence being that the protections provided by such notice provisions have been erased? Has the Seventh Circuit’s ruling that is being appealed created a notice requirement that is different from the statutory notice requirement, and eliminated due process protections? 2, If the IRS proves that a spouse received a letter or another document, does it mean that it has proven without any further evidence that the other spouse knew about that document in question, and that knowledge of one spouse is imputed upon the other spouse automatically?

  2. When the IRS has the burden of proving mailing (or if any other party has that burden), how is that proven? Can the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service meet its burden of proving that it mailed Notice of Beginning of Administrative Proceeding (NBAP) 26 U.S.C. § 6223(a)(1) and/or “Notice of a Final Partnership Administrative Adjustment,” or FPAA. See id. § 6223(a)

  3. when the nationally used U.S. Postal Service forms submitted to prove mailing are incomplete and therefore invalid? Is there a consistent rule?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Alon Stein
Stein Law Offices

For respondent
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jan 08 2024
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Dec 13 2023
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/5/2024.
  3. Dec 11 2023
    Waiver of right of respondent Commissioner of Internal Revenue to respond filed.
  4. Nov 07 2023
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 11, 2023)