Steeves
Steeves v. Internal Revenue Service
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 DEAN ALLEN STEEVES, Acting Case No.: 20cv978-LAB Trustee of Brother’s Keeper 12 Ministries ORDER DENYING AMENDED PETITION; AND Plaintiff, 14 v. ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
16 Defendant. 17 Plaintiff filed a motion to quash a May 6, 2020 I.R.S. summons on Wells Fargo Bank, in connection with an investigation of Camp Noble, Inc. Because of a scrivener’s error in the summons, Wells Fargo notified the I.R.S. that it would not produce the requested information, though it was willing to comply with a summons allowing it the appropriate time to respond. The government then withdrew the May 6 summons. On June 25, 2020, the I.R.S. issued a new summons to Wells Fargo, which was served on Wells Fargo and mailed to Camp Noble, Inc. and Plaintiff Dean Steeves that same day. Because Steeves had suggested that Wells Fargo might not comply with the 28…