A federal District Court in Texas has dismissed a series of claims brought by an applicant for 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status against Lois Lerner, former Director of Exempt Organizations Division of the IRS. The Court said that Freedom Path, Inc., an organization caught up in the IRS “Tea Party scandal” and required to provide additional information, had not shown that it had personal jurisdiction over Lerner in Texas. The Court also dismissed a number of claims that Freedom Path brought against the IRS itself. On the jurisdictional issue, the Court held that the allegation that Lerner oversaw an IRS unit located in Dallas and had sent an email to the director of that unit was insufficient to...