Legal Opinion
United States v. General Douglas MacArthur Senior Village, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 5, 1972No. 148, Docket 72-1433PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:
The financial needs of local governments allegedly caught in a squeeze between rising costs of vital public services and the diminishing availability of revenues are pressed upon us in this appeal. We are asked to decide whether liens for unpaid real property taxes should be satisfied prior to a mortgage lien held by the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, where the mortgage was recorded before assessment of the property taxes. The district court, 337 F.Supp. 955, answered in the affirmative, giving the local governments first…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- M'culloch v. State of MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1819
- United States v. City of New BritainSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Spector Motor Service, Inc. v. McLaughlinSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
- United States v. Pioneer American InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- S. R. A., Inc. v. MinnesotaSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
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3Cited by25 opinions
- United States v. Kimbell Foods, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Matagorda County v. Russell LawCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1994
- Pauline Rust v. Paul Johnson and Nora Johnson, City of Los Angeles v. Paul Johnson, Nora Johnson, and the Secretary of Housing and Urban DevelopmentCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1979
- United States v. General Douglas MacArthur Senior Village, Inc., D.C.R. Holding Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1974
- Kimbell Foods, Inc. v. Republic National Bank Of DallasCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1977
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