Legal Opinion
Valerie Kline v. Henry Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 1, 1996No. 94-5147PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS.
STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:
This dispute poses two jurisdictional issues, one largely and the other entirely neglected by the parties. Plaintiff sought to recover her $2,000 “earnest money” deposit on a contract to purchase a house and lot from the defendant Department of Housing and Urban Development for $65,000. She claimed that because the $67,688 figure given by HUD as the property’s estimated fair market value was based on an obsolete (and high) estimate, there was a mutual mistake of fact or a misrepresentation by…
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