Estes v. U.S. Department of the Treasury

CHRISTOPHER R. COOPER, United States District Judge

Table of Contents

I. Background .. .22

A. United States Savings Bond Program ...22

B. State Attempts to Redeem Bonds by Escheat .. .23

C. Kansas’s Title-Escheatment Statute and Redemption Efforts .. .25

D. The Rulemaking .. .26

E. Procedural History .. .27

II. Legal Standards .. .27

III. Analysis .. .27

A. Whether the Rule Constitutes an Unacknowledged Policy Change .. .27

1. Whether the Possession Requirement is a Policy Change ... 28

2. Whether the Discretionary Aspect of the Rule is a Policy Change ... 30

3. Whether Other Apparent Inconsistencies…