EC Term of Years Trust v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that the holding in Williams was based “on the specific understanding that no other remedy ... was open to the plaintiff in that case”
• holding that later statute governs in event of conflict
• “ ‘[A] precisely drawn, detailed statute pre-empts more general reme- dies’ ” (quoting Brown v. GSA, 425 U. S. 820, 834 (1976))
• nine-month limitations period for a claim under specific statute conflicts with four-year period provided by a more general statute
• nine-month limitations period for a claim under specific statute conflicts with four-year period provided by a more general statute
• “It has been commonly understood that Williams did not extend § 1346(a)(1) to parties in the [wrongful levy claimant’s] position.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).