Hudson Savings Bank v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that two federal tax liens had priority as a matter of law over the competing claims for fees and costs of a stakeholder-bank
• holding that § 1444 “confers upon the federal government an absolute right to remove to federal court interpleader actions in which it is named as a defendant”
• requiring remand under the plain text of § 1447(c), even though the court acknowledged the United States, a defendant in the removed interpleader action, would likely raise sovereign on remand
• “28 U.S.C. § 1444 ... confers upon the federal government an absolute right to remove to federal court [quiet title] actions in which it is named as a defendant....”
• “Congress has conferred upon the federal sovereign the virtually absolute right to litigate claims brought either by or against it in the federal, rather than the state, courts.”
• “classic interpleader action” where “(i) the [bank], a pure stakeholder, has not asserted any entitlement to the stake and is seeking nothing beyond a discharge from further liability; (ii

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