IRS counsel are notorious devotees of the “Win Your Case at Discovery” gambit. But the trusty attorneys for Chad Burris & Julie Burris, et al., Docket No. 18712-22, filed 8/28/26, have been successfully slow playing IRS’ treasure hunt. For backstory, see my blogpost “Don’t Suppose You Can Depose – Indocumentado,” 4/29/26.

So IRS’ counsel unleash a barrage of motions seeking documents, admissions, and elucidations, which Judge Cary Douglas (“C-Doug”) Pugh grants in extenso. The wrangling “which has plagued this case” caused Judge C-Doug Pugh to continue the special trial session supposed to start on Monday.

Now said trusty attorneys have ten (count ’em, ten) days to pony up or show good cause at the trial next year why whatever they didn’t hand over should be allowed in.

For those of my readers who have led clean and sober lives, far from track and table, to “slow play” at poker is to bet weakly so as to entice an opponent into overvaluing his/her cards, springing a trap at the last. 

Here, IRS calls. And Judge C-Doug Pugh is waiting.