Legal Opinion

Powell v. United States Department of Treasury

District Court, District of Columbia

Decided February 19, 2026No. Civil Action No. 2024-1893Published

1Opinion of the Court

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WILLIAM E. POWELL, Plaintiff, v. Case No. 24-cv-1893 (CRC) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION This case is the latest installment of Plaintiff William E. Powell’s years-long saga to obtain tax records from the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”). In this episode, Powell filed four Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) requests and four Form 4506-T requests for tax transcripts and other records related to his family’s printing company. Dissatisfied with the IRS’s responses, Powell brought this…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Ashcroft v. IqbalSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
  2. Bell Atlantic Corp. v. TwomblySupreme Court of the United States · 2007
  3. Trudeau v. Federal Trade CommissionCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2006
  4. Judicial Watch, Inc. v. United States Secret ServiceCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2013
  5. Martinez, Robert v. Bureau of PrisonsCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2006

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