Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation v. Former Officers And Directors Of Metropolitan Bank

How courts have described this case

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

• discussing Cardinal and holding that “[t]he policy arguments are fairly evenly balanced and do not weigh strongly in favor of either side”
• Where there is a substantial question as to whether breach of fiduciary claim sounds in tort or contract, court applies longer contract limitations period
• “This circuit has held, however, that when there is a ‘substantial question’ which of two conflicting statutes of limitations to apply, the court should apply the longer.”
• “To the extent that a statute is ambiguous in assigning a limitations period for a claim, we will interpret it in a light most favorable to the government.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).