I’ve been following the track of that Dixieland Boondockery quartette Habitat Green Investments, LLC, MM Bulldawg Manager, LLC, Tax Matters Partner, et al., Docket No. 14433-17, filed 5/22/26, these last six (count ’em, six) years. 

Finally, the trial is over. Now IRS wants to seal chunks of the docket. Taishoff is at a loss to understand why anyone not a trial or appellate lawyer or judge, who is presumably getting paid to do so, would want to plow through 222 (count ’em, 222) pages of discovery jousting to uncover the identity of the whistleblower who tipped IRS off, when the identity of said blower was revealed in open court, seemingly to the only parties who would have cared.

Nevertheless, Judge Christian N. (“Speedy”) Weiler has to waste his valuable time I(and my much less valuable time) in coming up with somber reasoning and copious citation of precedent to conclude that when the party’s counsel seeking to protect said blower, who neither asked to be protected nor is represented by said counsel, can only come up with conclusory allegations of potential harm to said blower, the public’s right to know outweighs whatever right the blower may have to anonymity.