Opinion
14867-20
08-24-2022
NADEEM AHMAD & QURATULAN AHMAD, Petitioners v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent
ORDER
Mark V. Holmes Judge
This case is on the Court's September 12, 2021 San Francisco, California trial calendar. There's quite a large deficiency in dispute, but it's really just the sum of a massive number of smaller substantiation disputes. Petitioners moved without objection to continue the case to try to settle it. We spoke with the parties today to discuss progress because the case had already been continued once before. All agreed that it was the sheer number of individual items in dispute that slowed progress; all also agreed that they have steadily reduced the number of those disputes. With the Court assured that there has been and continues to be productive informal discovery, it is reasonable to move the case to a status-report track. It is therefore
ORDERED that petitioners' August 9, 2022 motion for a continuance is granted in that this case is stricken from the Court's September 12, 2022 trial calendar for San Francisco, California. It is also
ORDERED that this division of the Court retains jurisdiction over this case. It is also
ORDERED that on or before October 24, 2022 the parties shall submit settlement documents or file a status report describing their progress in settling the case or narrowing the issues to be tried.