Opinion
12776-20
03-20-2023
BROOK ROSE, Petitioner v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent
ORDER
David Gustafson Judge.
This case is scheduled to be tried in about seven weeks at the Tax Court's trial session beginning May 8, 2023. We will order the parties to file a status report in about three weeks.
The petition in this case was filed in November 2020, and it is among the older cases on the calendar for this trial session. The case was previously set for trial in December 2021 and May 2022 but in each instance was continued at the request of the parties. More than a year has passed since the filing of the second of these motions for continuance in February 2022 (Doc. 11), and in that year neither party has made any substantive filing.
On January 12, 2023, we filed and served our notice of trial (Doc. 16) and our standing pretrial order ("SPTO"; Doc. 17). The SPTO gave the parties instructions about preparing for trial, including the instruction to file pretrial memoranda by April 17, 2023, and the instruction to file their stipulation and proposed trial exhibits by April 24, 2023.
It is
ORDERED that, no later than April 7, 2023, the parties shall file a joint status report (or, if that is not expedient, then separate reports) advising the Court of their progress in pretrial preparation--especially the preparation of a joint stipulation of facts.