Progressive Consumers Federal Credit Union v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Declaratory Judgment Act “neither provides nor denies a jurisdictional basis for actions under federal law, but merely defines the scope of available declaratory relief.”
• holding “section 2410(a)(1) controversies encompass disputes concerning both the ‘validity and priority of liens’”
• noting that § 2201 does not constitute a waiver of sovereign immunity because the Act “neither provides nor denies a jurisdictional basis for actions under federal law, but merely defines the scope of available declaratory relief”
• Declaratory Judgment Act does not bar quiet title action seeking determination of lien priority
• Declaratory Judgment Act does not bar quiet title action seeking determination of lien priority
• “Unlike the plaintiffs in Kasdon, [plaintiff] seeks only a determination of priority between competing liens; it never initiated a foreclosure action and did not seek to extinguish the federal lien.”

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