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Senate panel leaders back Obama nominees for Tax Court
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the Senate's tax-writing committee on Tuesday urged the panel approve two of President Barack Obama's nominees to be judges at the U.S. Tax Court, and the panel's top Republican called them "very qualified."
Democratic Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, of Montana, said both nominees - Ronald Buch and Albert Lauber - have considerable experience in tax law. The senior Republican, Orrin Hatch of Utah, said in a statement the nominees "seem very qualified to serve."
Buch is a partner at law firm Bingham McCutchen LLP and has represented multinational companies in tax controversy disputes. Lauber is a professor at Georgetown Law School and previously worked at law firm Caplin & Drysdale.
A committee vote on the nominees, who were named by Obama in 2011, has not been scheduled. If approved at that level, the nominees would then need to be confirmed by the full Senate. The president's four previous Tax Court nominees were confirmed by the Senate.
About 90 percent of all Internal Revenue Service tax deficiency cases - in which the government says a taxpayer owes the government money - go through the Tax Court.
(Reporting by Patrick Temple-West; Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh and Jackie Frank)
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And with respect to the case against McDonald’s, while at it’s surface seems ridiculous, if you look at details of case you will see that the injured person had a VERY valid claim. Two facts that came out in the case, Mikey D’s knew that they where serving their coffee at an unacceptably high temperature, because they had internal studies that said their coffee tasted bad unless served at these extremely high temperatures and they figured they would lose more by lowering the temperature then they would pay out in future suits (probably ended up being right). Also the person suing had irreparable damage done to their genitals.
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