The tax court ruled in favor of the IRS agreeing that Holsinger did not qualify for trader tax status.

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"The announcement, it was sudden and it surprised me, " said Melissa Holsinger, who found a nanny for her son on the site.

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As a health official and academic in Kentucky, Dr Holsinger was a force behind the state's pioneering law, passed in 2005, to limit junk food in schools.

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Holsinger, Holsinger had only 40 and 45 percent frequencies.

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