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practicing lawyer who ignored this Court’s Orders and procedures.
Petitioners failed to submit a Pretrial Memorandum or appear
in person at the Louisville trial session. Petitioners did not
enter into a stipulation or make themselves available to
participate in the stipulation process. Petitioners have, on
several occasions, not provided adequate records to substantiate
the claimed deductions, although they have been given several
opportunities and over 4 years to do so. Petitioners ignored
many meetings respondent scheduled and frequently failed to give
respondent any advance notice of petitioners’ intention to miss
the meetings. Despite petitioners’ consistently and continuously
maintaining during the entire 4-year period that they have all
the necessary documentation, they have neither established nor
substantiated the deductions claimed.
We find that petitioners failed properly to prosecute this
case. In addition, petitioners have ignored this Court’s Orders
and Rules and protracted these proceedings. Further, petitioners
failed to provide the Court an explanation why they failed to
comply with this Court’s Rules and our Standing Pretrial Order.
Petitioners did not respond to respondent’s Motion to Compel
Production of Documents and Impose Sanctions or respondent’s
Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Prosecution and to Impose Sanctions
under section 6673. Nor did petitioners appear at the hearing
held at the Louisville trial session. In addition, petitioners
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