Legal Opinion
Seippel v. Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, LLP
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 16, 2005No. 03 Civ. 6942(SAS)PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SCHEINDLIN, District Judge.
1. INTRODUCTION
This case arises out of tax and consulting services offered by several professional law, financial services and accounting firms. Plaintiffs, William and Sharon Seippel, allege that defendants 1 defrauded plaintiffs through the development, marketing and sale of a tax shelter (a strategy involving digital options or swaps on foreign currency sometimes known as “COBRA”) which they knew the IRS would challenge as lacking economic substance. The Seippels filed this suit on September 10, 2003, alleging that defendants violated the…
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