( November 18, 2025, 2:47 PM EST) -- DALLAS — In a text-only docket entry, a Texas federal judge directed the U.S. government to file a status report by Dec. 5, stating whether it intends to withhold the administrative record in connection with a tax firm’s pending motion to compel less; the order was issued less than two weeks after the judge dismissed with prejudice the firm’s claims that an Internal Revenue Service final rule on microcaptive insurance arrangements exceeded the agency’s statutory authority and was contrary to law but denied the government’s motion to dismiss the firm’s remaining claim that the rule is arbitrary and capricious....