Knight v. United States

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON MOTION OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO DISMISS COUNT I OF PLAINTIFFS’ COMPLAINT

ELLIOTT, District Judge.

According to the allegations of the complaint above identified the Plaintiffs are engaged in “discounting federal income tax refund checks of private individuals”. The Plaintiffs pay a taxpayer a percentage of the claimed refund and obtain a purported assignment of the refund. They allege that they were informed by representatives of the Internal Revenue Service that the discounting of income tax refunds was not prohibited by law and that they were given the…