Splinter Class Action Against IRS by ‘Rogue’ Attorney Tossed

A class action to challenge fees the IRS charged tax preparers is inappropriate while an identical suit is ongoing, a federal judge ruled, dismissing the second lawsuit.

Upset he wasn’t named class counsel in the first class action filed to challenge the fees, attorney Allen Buckley, “decided to go rogue” and file a second lawsuit class action the same facts and precise claims, the US District Court for the District of Columbia said in ruling Thursday.

Although the doctrine of claim preclusion doesn’t apply because the court hasn’t reached a final judgment in the first case, the prohibition against claim ...