Viola assures Diane that all she needs Lockhart Gardner to do is to take depositions, all routine, for a defamation case that seems highly unlikely to succeed.

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However, that was not the case for workers doing routine jobs that entail following rigid corporate instructions repeatedly.

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They appealed to Tax Court and, as is routine, the court sent their case back to the IRS for mediation.

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