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· 9/16/1998

Koehler v. USA

Citations

  • 153 F.3d 263
  • 82 A.F.T.R.2d (RIA) 6270
  • 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 22686
  • 1998 WL 549538

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding based on “the plain terms of the statute” that a “taxpayer may maintain a suit under § 2410(a) only if at the time she files suit the government had a mortgage or other lien on the property that is the basis of the taxpayer’s quiet title action”
  • “[S]overeign immunity is jurisdictional and, therefore, deprives this court of the ability to hear the merits of [a] claim altogether.”
  • no waiver where action outside scope of 28 U.S.C. 2410(a) (authorizing action to quiet title where United States holds lien or mortgage on property); Porter v. Fox, 99 F.3d 271, 274 (8th Cir. 1996

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Judges: Garza, Demoss, Benavides

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