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          respondent stated:                                                          
                    You stated during our July 17, 2001, telephone                    
               conversation that you would no longer be representing                  
               the above-referenced taxpayers [petitioners in the                     
               cases at docket Nos. 10764-00 through 10767-00], whose                 
               Tax Court cases are scheduled for trial the week begin-                
               ning October 15, 2001.  Although you served our office                 
               with a Notice of Substitution of Counsel, as of this                   
               date our records indicate that the Court has not agreed                
               to the substitution or to your withdrawal as counsel in                
               these cases.                                                           
                    I have enclosed two (2) sets of Respondent’s First                
               Set of Interrogatories to Petitioner(s) (“Interrogato-                 
               ries”) and Respondent’s First Request for Production of                
               Documents (“Production of Documents”) which pursuant to                
               Tax Court Rules 71 and 72 require responses within 30                  
               days of service.  As appropriate, please forward a copy                
               of this letter and the enclosed Interrogatories and                    
               Production of Documents to Everett D. Richards.                        
               On September 4, 2001, the Court issued respective Orders               
          (September 4, 2001 Orders) in the cases at docket Nos. 10765-00             
          and 10766-00 in which it directed (1) petitioners in those cases            
          to file on or before September 13, 2001, written responses to               
          respondent’s motions to compel discovery; (2) Ms. Jackson and Mr.           
          Wise each to file on or before September 13, 2001, any motions to           
          withdraw as counsel; and (3) the Clerk of the Court to serve                
          copies of respondent’s respective motions to compel discovery and           
          the Court’s respective September 4, 2001 Orders not only on then            
          petitioners’ counsel of record but also on petitioners at peti-             
          tioners’ address listed in the petitions.                                   
               On September 14, 2001, Ms. Jackson filed a motion to with-             
          draw as counsel (motion to withdraw) in each of the cases at                






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