Legal Opinion
United States v. Mason
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 4, 1973No. 72-654PublishedCited by 118 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Marshall
The issue in these cases is whether a trustee in the course of administering its fiduciary obligations is en titled to rely on a directly relevant decision of this Court which has neither been overruled nor questioned. The Court of Claims ruled that the United States breached its fiduciary duty by failing to resist payment of Oklahoma’s estate tax on certain trust property held by the United States acting as trustee for the benefit of the Osage Indians. The Court of Claims recognized that this Court, in West v. Oklahoma Tax Comm’n, 334 U. S. 717 (1948), had squarely upheld the validity of…
2Cases cited27 opinions
- Clearfield Trust Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- McClanahan v. Arizona State Tax CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- United States v. RickertSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Squire v. CapoemanSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- Flood v. KuhnSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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3Cited by118 opinions
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