WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Justice Department settled with Z Street, a right-wing pro-Israel group that was for years denied tax-exempt status. The group complained that its 2009 application for U.S. tax-exempt status was being unduly scrutinized because of its connection to Israel. It was granted in 2016. In a statement, the Justice Department did not …
An appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling that a lawsuit challenging the Internal Revenue Service’s scrutiny of Israel-related groups may proceed. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on June 19 ruled against the government’s argument that Z Street’s 2010 lawsuit should be dismissed under laws banning lawsuits that seek to…
A federal judge ruled that a lawsuit challenging the Internal Revenue Service’s scrutiny of Israel-related groups may proceed. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. on May 27 dismissed U.S. government claims that federal courts lack jurisdiction over the lawsuit filed in 2010 by an Israel advocacy group, Z Street….
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