Legal Opinion
Reconstruction Finance Corp. v. Tuolumne Gold Dredging Corp.
District Court, N.D. California
Decided June 5, 1953No. 6192PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEMMON, District Judge.
Courts administer justice, not alms. As has so often happened in recent years both in international and intranational affairs, the United States is here being asked to pay for the misadventure or the improvidence of others.
Fortunately, however, we have a Supreme Court that is steadily moving away from this eleemosynary philosophy of government. In Federal Crop Insurance Corporation v. Merrill, 1947, 332 U.S. 380, 383-384, 68 S.Ct. 1, 3, 92 L.Ed. 10, the Court said:
“It is too late in the day to urge that the Government is just another private litigant, for purposes of…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Federal Crop Ins. Corp. v. MerrillSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Ex Parte CollettSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Keifer & Keifer v. Reconstruction Finance Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Graves v. New York Ex Rel. O'KeefeSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
- E. I. Dupont De Nemours & Co. v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1924
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Santos v. District Council of New York CityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1980
- Frank Santos v. District Council Of New York City And Vicinity Of United Brotherhood Of Carpenters And Joiners Of America, Afl-CioCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1980
- Tom Stone v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1961
- Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning AgencyDistrict Court, D. Nevada · 1998
- Walter W. Johnson Company, a Corporation v. Reconstruction Finance CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1956
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