Opinion
3033-19
06-26-2023
JAVID YADEGAR & MAHNAZ YADEGAR, Petitioners v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent
ORDER
Mark V. Holmes Judge
This case was on the Court's October 19, 2020 trial calendar for New York City. It'd been continued once before, so the Court spoke with the parties that August. It turned out to be very similar to a case that's already been tried, Soleimani v. Commissioner, dkt. no. 8884-13. Petitioners moved to continue this case until Soleimani was decided, which seemed reasonable because there seemed to be a high probability that the result in Soleimani could lead to a settlement of this case. The Court recently released its opinion in Soleimani, and it may well be that the result in that case was too dependent on its idiosyncratic facts to easily lead to progress in this case. We spoke with the parties today, and all agreed it made sense for them to review Soleimani in some detail to see whether this case will be heading for settlement or trial. It is therefore
ORDERED that the parties file a joint status report on or before August 21, 2023 in which they describe any progress toward settlement and their views on whether this case should be put on a pretrial-order or status-report track.