Opinion
28874-21
09-09-2022
JEFFERY C. ALBERTA & BETH K. ALBERTA 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. Petitioners are members of a recognized Indian tribe in California, and the case involves unusual questions of whether the IRS is misattributing tribal income to petitioners as individuals. We've spoken with the parties twice about how to get the information from the tribe that they both recognize is probably necessary for them to settle or try the case. In today's call we learned that they have had fruitful conversations on how to work with the tribe to get the records they need. It is reasonable to move this case to a status-report track, and it is therefore
ORDERED that respondent's August 11, 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 December 7, 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.