Modoc Lassen Indian Housing Authority v. United States Department of Housing & Urban Development

MORITZ, Circuit Judge.

These consolidated appeals arise from a government agency’s decision to recapture, via administrative offset, funds that the agency allegedly overpaid to multiple grant recipients. The grant recipients brought suit in federal court, arguing in relevant part that the agency lacked authority to recapture the funds without first providing them with administrative hearings. The district court agreed and ordered the agency to repay the grant recipients. The agency now appeals that order,1

If these underlying facts sound relatively straightforward, it’s because they are. But…