Microsoft Corporation v. Internal Revenue Service
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ORDER granting Parties' 44 Fifth Unopposed Motion Regarding Case Schedule. The remaining deadline for the filing of IRS's motion for summary judgment is extended up to and including 3/29/2022. Signed by Judge Ricardo S. Martinez. (SB)
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON
AT SEATTLE
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MICROSOFT CORPORATION,
Case No. C15-1605 RSM
Plaintiff,
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v.
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ORDER GRANTING FIFTH CONSENT
MOTION REGARDING CASE
SCHEDULE
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE,
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Defendant.
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This matter comes before the Court on the parties’ Fifth stipulated Motion to Amend the
Case Schedule. Dkt. #44. This case, originally filed in 2015, has been plagued with delays and
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stipulated continuances. In March of 2020, after a seventeen-month period where no status
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report was filed, the Court set a case schedule with a deadline for summary judgment in March
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of 2021. Four days before that deadline, the parties stipulated to an extension of time. The
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Court has now granted four such extensions. Each stipulation contained minimal information
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about the status of this case, and progress has apparently been glacial.
The Court finds good cause to grant the instant unopposed Motion for a sixty-day
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extension of the summary judgment deadline given the continuing efforts of the IRS to respond
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to Microsoft’s concerns via letter and efforts to engage in negotiations. However, this will be
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ORDER GRANTING FIFTH CONSENT MOTION REGARDING CASE SCHEDULE - 1
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the last extension absent a more substantial showing of good cause or the scheduling of a
telephonic status conference.
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Having considered the briefing from the parties and the remainder of the record, the
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Court hereby finds and ORDERS that the parties’ Fifth stipulated Motion to Amend the Case
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Schedule, Dkt. #44, is GRANTED. The remaining deadline for the filing of IRS’s motion for
summary judgment is extended up to and including March 29, 2022.
DATED this 28th day of January, 2022.
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RICARDO S. MARTINEZ
CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
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ORDER GRANTING FIFTH CONSENT MOTION REGARDING CASE SCHEDULE - 2
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