Legal Opinion

Laturner v. United States

United States Court of Federal Claims

Decided August 8, 2017No. 13-1011CPublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION AND ORDER

KAPLAN, Judge.

In this breach-of-eontraet case, Plaintiff Jake LaTurner, Treasurer of the State of Kansas (Kansas) claims that Kansas has obtained title under the state’s Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act (Unclaimed Property Act) to a large but unknown number of matured, unredeemed United States savings bonds, and that the federal government has wrongfully failed to redeem those bonds. The bonds, issued by the United States Department of the Treasury (Treasury), carry thirty- or forty-year maturity periods. Although Kansas claims that it owns the bonds, it does not possess…

2Cases cited40 opinions

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  2. Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, Administratrix of the Estate of CatrettSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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  4. Hanson v. DencklaSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Laturner v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 2019
  2. Lea v. United StatesUnited States Court of Federal Claims · 2017
  3. In Re: Escheatment of Matured, Unredeemed, and Unclaimed US Savings Bonds with Purchasers' Addresses in the Commonwealth of PA Petition of: PA State Treasurer, Joseph M. TorsellaCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2018
  4. Laturner v. United StatesUnited States Court of Federal Claims · 2017
  5. Torsella v. United StatesUnited States Court of Federal Claims · 2020

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