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EV_Ares

(6,587 posts)
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 12:17 PM Oct 2014

A Good win Against The Tea Party By The IRS:




IRS notches legal victory in tea party cases


The IRS may have inadvertently figured out how to win its legal battles against aggrieved tea party groups: Give them what they wanted in the first place — tax-exempt status.
That was a major reason a Republican-appointed federal judge on Thursday threw out two lawsuits brought by more than 40 conservative groups seeking remedies for being singled out in the tea party targeting scandal, a victory forJJJ the IRS.

judge Reggie Walton of the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia dismissed almost all counts brought against the tax-collecting agency in two cases, ruling that both were essentially moot now that the IRS granted the groups their tax-exempt status that had been held up for years.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/irs-tea-party-legal-victory-112145.html#ixzz3H51Dxk7o













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