SIEU v. IRS

California Appellate Report ^ | March 17, 2010 | Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

[Lurking Libertarian]

I'm not sure who is more unpopular with FReepers, the SIEU or the IRS, but they went head-to-head today before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and IRS came out ahead, to the tune of $52,000 and change.

it's hard to post a link directly to the court's decision, but the link above is to a blog post which in turn links to the decision.

[NautiNurse]

SEIU = Service Employees International Union.

[Domandred]

My head is going to explode with all the conflicting signals firing off on this one

[rmlew]

Reminds me of the Iran and Iraq war. Too bad they both can’t lose.

[Frohickey]

If I get to choose, I would rather the IRS lose every time. The SEIU is not a government entity, so when it becomes irrelevant, it goes away. The same cannot be said about government entities.

[Oceander]

The opinion itself can be downloaded as a pdf file from here

[McGavin999]

Only $52,000? Good grief, that's small potatoes, really wish it had been $5,200,000. That would be a bit more satisfying.

BTW, when is the IRS going to go after the federal and state employees who owe back taxes?