Schneider Interests, L.P., Russ Schneider Farms, L.L.C., Tax Matters Partner v. Commissioner

119 T.C. No. 8

UNITED STATES TAX COURT SCHNEIDER INTERESTS, L.P., RUSS SCHNEIDER FARMS, L.L.C., TAX MATTERS PARTNER, Petitioner v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent Docket No. 200-02. Filed September 30, 2002. Four months after the instant case was docketed, R sent P a so-called Branerton letter consisting of 68 pages of questions and requests for documents. Thirty-five days later, R instituted formal discovery by serving upon P 77 pages of interrogatories and 78 pages of requests for production of documents. R rejected P’s suggestion that compliance with formal discovery be…