Legal Opinion
Lea v. United States
United States Court of Federal Claims
Decided August 8, 2017No. 16-43CPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
Keywords: Summary Judgment; Breach of Contract; U.S. Savings Bonds; Preemption; Intergovernmental Immunity; Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment; Breach of Contract; 31 C.F.R. § 315.20(b).
OPINION AND ORDER
KAPLAN, Judge.
In this breach-of-contract case, Plaintiff Andrea Lea, Auditor of the State of Arkansas (Arkansas), claims that Arkansas has ob- tamed title under the state’s Unclaimed Property Act to a large but unknown number of matured, unredeemed United States savings bonds, and that the government has wrongfully failed to redeem those bonds. The bonds, issued by the United…
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