Whistleblower cases held back awaiting DC Cir’s jurisdictional pronunciamentos are now gushing through the sluice gates of DAWSON’s Creek as stays lift on motion or sua sponte. Here are two (count ’em, two). 

Julie Anne Carlson, Docket No. 35898-21W, filed 9/21/26, Judge Christian N. (“Speedy”) Weiler says  Pratt, Kennedy, and Shands all require an administrative or judicial action commenced or enhanced by what the blower provided. Merely sending the Form 211 to a classifier in an operating division is not an administrative action. But maybe Julie Anne catches a break, as Judge Speedy Weiler says since she has screenshots of CA State Controller’s public website showing IRS taking Target money to prove she told IRS to go fish, she raised the collection issue in an amended petition post-rejection, so her petition is dismissed without prejudice as premature and speculative, and she can try again.

W. Stewart Connard, Docket No. 4159-22W, filed 9/21/26, got two (count ’em, two) looks at his blow, one after referral to a LB&I classifier, and the second after he wrote to IRS and RS Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement, who sent the stuff to a LB&I subject matter expert. The expert said IRS already knew about the problem, but the blow contained no specific details and they couldn’t audit every partner in the deal. No audit, no collection, no award.More to come.