Case No. IA-2018-352602-1

Date issued: Jun. 08 2018

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TURBOFAC Commentary (622 words)

Notes:

1) This guidance letter contains notable guidance concerning the scope of the standard legal services GL, 560.510 of the ITSR, and the informational materials exemption. As indicated in the letter, the facts involve a proceeding in the U.S. before the Social Security Administration, where there was a need to obtain information from Iran concerning a person’s death in Iran order to obtain payments in the U.S. The letter indicates that a U.S. law firm was handling the estate proceedings generally while a lawyer “who is licensed to practice law in both Maryland and Iran” was engaged to obtain the records for the SSA proceeding (i.e. “an Iranian death certificate and possibly a coroner’s report, police report, or hospital records to establish the cause of [decedent’s] death”). As notable background see...