article_snippet.sent: A federal judge has ordered the Internal Revenue Service to hand over a list of the 298 tea party organizations that the Internal Revenue Service targeted with broad and often intrusive questions when the 298 tea party organizations that it targeted with broad and often intrusive questions when they applied for nonprofit tax-exempt status applied for nonprofit tax-exempt status.
article_snippet.sent: The decision from U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott means right-wing groups are a step closer to being allowed to pursue a class-action lawsuit against the IRS.
article_snippet.sent: Dlott agreed this week that the tea party groups suing the government can pursue the tea party groups suing the government claims that the IRS the IRS violated the tea party groups suing the government First and Fifth Amendment rights, along with a section of federal law – Section 6103 of Title 26 – that prohibits the government from releasing private information contained in tax returns.
article_snippet.sent: When the Justice Department Office of Inspector General investigated the IRS's actions, the IRS demanded – and received – a list of 298 groups whose tax-exemption applications had been held up.
article_snippet.sent: It's a list of 298 groups whose tax-exemption applications had been held up that the tea party groups want.
article_snippet.sent: the tea party groups lawsuit aims first to identify a list of 'all dissenting groups targeted for additional scrutiny by the IRS from January 20, 2009, through July 15, 2013.'
article_snippet.sent: Dlott could then choose to certify a list of 298 groups whose tax-exemption applications had been held up as a 'class' of plaintiffs.
article_snippet.sent: the IRS's lawyers claimed that The IRS's lawyers couldn't provide The Court with the names of all the groups, saying The IRS's lawyers would have to turn over the very documents that Section 6103 requires The IRS's lawyers to keep confidential.
article_snippet.sent: Dlott decided that without the list, The IRS's lawyers wouldn't be able to show all the disaffected conservative applicants Dlott has already identified share common experiences at the hands of America's tax collectors.
article_snippet.sent: Dlott also ordered the IRS the IRS to tell the court whether or not that list was authentic, The Washington Times reported.
highlights_snippet.sent: Right-wing groups want court to let Right-wing groups sue the IRS in a class-action lawsuit for violating Right-wing groups
highlights_snippet.sent: Obama administration fought the release of a list of 298 groups Obama administration denied tax-exempt status beginning in 2010, citing privacy concerns .
  