Legal Opinion
Rodriguez v. Fed. Deposit Ins. Corp.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 25, 2020No. 18-1269PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gorsuch
*716 This case grows from a fight over a tax refund. But the question we face isn't who gets the money, only how to decide the dispute. Should federal courts rely on state law, together with any applicable federal rules, or should they devise their own federal common law test? To ask the question is nearly to answer it. The cases in which federal courts may engage in common lawmaking are few and far between. This is one of the cases that lie between.
The trouble here started when the United Western Bank hit hard times, entered receivership, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation took the…
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