Legal Opinion
Hudson Savings Bank v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 5, 2007No. 06-2043PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge.
We are asked, in effect, to referee a turf war between the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the United States. This is the latest in a series of cases in which those two sovereigns have asserted conflicting claims against a limited fund that is to be disbursed by interpleader. In those cases, each has endeavored to have the relative priority of its claims determined in its own courts, and each has mustered a plausible argument that it should not be forced to litigate this question in the other’s forum. A number of district courts have attempted to untangle this…
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