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Trump appeals court order in $10 billion IRS tax-leak suit

8/1/2026

A referral to the bar, meaning the state body that licenses and can discipline or disbar attorneys, is now part of the fallout from a court order that sharply rejected Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service.

The lawsuit targeted the IRS over the leak of Trump's private tax records by a contractor the agency had hired.

What the lawsuit was about The Internal Revenue Service is the federal agency that collects taxes and enforces the tax code.

Trump sued it for $10 billion after a contractor, a private worker hired to perform specific tasks for the agency rather than a permanent federal employee, allegedly leaked his confidential tax information.

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