Pauline Rust v. Paul Johnson and Nora Johnson, City of Los Angeles v. Paul Johnson, Nora Johnson, and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

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• explaining that by statute, Fannie Mae is exempt from having to qualify to do business in any state under 12 U.S.C. § 1723a(a)
• finding that the City 26 could not extinguish a federal property interest through a foreclosure sale in the absence of Congressional intent to the contrary because the federal interest was protected under the Constitution’s Supremacy clause
• declining to reach issues “unnecessary to our decision” (citing Immigr. & Naturalization Serv. v. Bagamasbad, 429 U.S. 24, 25 (1976))
• rejecting contention that a mortgage held by a federal instrumentality was not “property” of the United States, in a Supremacy Clause challenge
• Fannie Mae held an assignment of a purchase-money mortgage

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