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NorCal Tea Party Patriots Sue IRS Over “Targeting”

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published May 22, 2013

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On Monday, California-based NorCal Tea Party Patriots filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court in Cincinnati accusing the IRS of violating the constitutional rights of the group by subjecting it to "intensive and intrusive scrutiny" during its process of seeking tax-exempted status.

The lawsuit, the first in line following eh IRS scandal over inappropriate targeting of conservative groups, seeks class action status on behalf of all conservative and libertarian groups that had been targeted by the IRS for "extra" scrutiny from March 2010 to May 2013.

The plaintiffs seek monetary damages for violations of the First and Fifth Amendment rights and violation of the Privacy Act of 1974 by the IRS.

The lawsuit is backed by a group called Citizens for Self-Governance, a group floated by Mark Meckler, the co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots.

Meckler said in a statement, "We stand shoulder to shoulder with all those known and unknown who have been abused by a federal government run amok."

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The IRS scandal has already seen the acting IRS commissioner, Steven Miller, resign, and Lois Lerner and other officials of the IRS are to testify before an investigative committee of the House of Representatives on Wednesday.

The lawsuit on Tuesday, came in the wake of news of a White House spokesman telling reporters on Monday that two senior aides to President Obama were aware for weeks about a report by the U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration that the IRS was targeting conservative groups,

The lawsuit claims that NorCal had first sought tax-exemption in March 2010, but did not receive the status until Aug 2, 2012 due to "unjustifiable delay." The complaint also mentions, "The IRS engaged in a tactic of suffocating NorCal Tea Party Patriots and other similarly situated groups with requests that were so searching and extensive that they would have presented a serious challenge even for sophisticated businesses."

The case is NorCal Tea Party Patriots v. The Internal Revenue Service, et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio, No. 13-00341.
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