Legal Opinion
Paul Revere Insurance Group v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 30, 2007No. 05-56642PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOULD, Circuit Judge:
In September 2005, Rex K DeGeorge (“DeGeorge”) recovered a civil judgment award for unpaid disability income. To help pay a previous restitution order that DeGeorge had not satisfied, the United States used California state law procedure to file, and then execute in federal court on, a judgment lien against this award. Although DeGeorge’s disability income would have been explicitly exempt from the judgment lien under California law, the government argued that federal, not state, property exemptions should apply in this case. Accepting the government’s argument and…
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