UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA

MIAMI DIVISION

CASE NO. 1:22-cv-24023-SCOLA/GOODMAN

KENNETH C. GRIFFIN,

 Plaintiff,

 v.

INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE and U.S. 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY,

 Defendants.

NOTICE OF SUPPLEMENTAL AUTHORITY / POTENTIAL MOOTNESS

Plaintiff respectfully submits this notice of supplemental authority regarding Defendants’ 

pending motion to dismiss.

Plaintiff alleges that IRS personnel exploited Defendants’ willful failures to safeguard 

Plaintiff’s confidential tax return information, leading to the unlawful disclosure of those materials 

to ProPublica for publication. ECF 1 ¶ 3. Defendants moved to dismiss asserting, among other 

things, that Plaintiff’s allegations are implausible and that it may have been a “foreign state actor” 

that disclosed Plaintiff’s information to ProPublica. ECF 23 4-5, 10, 13-14. 

On September 29, 2023, the U.S. filed a criminal information against Charles Littlejohn, 

an IRS contractor, charging him with stealing and unlawfully disclosing confidential return 

information of “thousands of the nation’s wealthiest people” to a news organization for 

publication, in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 6103, as Plaintiff alleged in his complaint. United States 

v. Charles Edward Littlejohn, 1:23-cr-00343-ACR ECF 1 (D.D.C.). The criminal information 

signals that the charged defendant informed the U.S. that a guilty plea is forthcoming. Likewise, 

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the charge indicates that the Complaint’s allegations are not just plausible—they are true. Given 

this development, we anticipate that Defendants will withdraw their motion to dismiss (in relevant 

part), and Plaintiff may likewise seek leave to amend his complaint.

Dated: October 1, 2023 Respectfully submitted,

By: /s/ Alexander J. Merton_

William A. Burck (pro hac vice)

Derek L. Shaffer (pro hac vice)

Alexander J. Merton (pro hac vice)

QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & SULLIVAN LLP

1300 I Street, N.W., Suite 900

Washington, DC 20005

(202) 538-8334

williamburck@quinnemanuel.com

derekshaffer@quinnemanuel.com

ajmerton@quinnemanuel.com

John F. Bash (pro hac vice)

QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & SULLIVAN LLP

300 West 6th St, Suite 2010

Austin, TX 78701

(737) 667-6100

johnbash@quinnemanuel.com

Jason D. Sternberg (Florida Bar No. 72887)

QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & SULLIVAN LLP

2601 South Bayshore Dr, Suite 1550

Miami, FL 33133

(305) 402-4880

jasonsternberg@quinnemanuel.com

Christopher D. Kercher (pro hac vice)

QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & SULLIVAN LLP

51 Madison Avenue, 22nd Floor,

New York, New York 10010

(212) 849-7000 

christopherkercher@quinnemanuel.com

Counsel to Plaintiff Kenneth C. Griffin

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I HEREBY CERTIFY that, on this 1st day of October, 2023, I caused a copy of the 

foregoing document to be filed with the Clerk of Court using the CM/ECF electronic filing system, 

which will send notification to all counsel of record.

By: /s/ Jason D. Sternberg

Jason D. Sternberg

Fla. Bar. No. 72887

jasonsternberg@quinnemanuel.com

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