Ralph T. Overman v. United States of America, Fred Hornkohl and Frances Overman

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that 42 U.S.C. § 659 does not waive the United States’ sovereign immunity for any claims related to child-support or alimony payments other that those brought by a state to enforce an obligation
• where claims against federal officer, who removed under § 1442(a)(1), were concluded, court strongly suggested use of discretionary remand as to non-federal defendants
• held that waiver of sovereign immunity did not include suit against United States to challenge validity of garnishment based on allegedly fraudulent divorce decree
• “Under § 659, the United States must respond to the garnishment to the same ex- tent as a private person for similar legal process and only to that extent.”
• “There is, and ought to be, a continuing federal policy to avoid handling domestic relations cases in federal court in the absence of important concerns of a constitutional dimension.”
• “There is, and ought to be, a continuing federal policy to avoid handling domestic relations cases in federal court in the absence of important concerns of a constitutional dimension.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).