Reconstruction Finance Corporation v. Beaver County

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• holding that federal courts are justified disregarding state law if the Congressional purposes underlying federal law would be undermined
• holding that federal courts are justified disregard- ing state law if the Congressional purposes underlying federal law would be undermined
• statute permitting States to apply their diverse local tax laws to real property of certain Government corporations
• statute permitting States to apply their diverse local tax laws to real property of certain Government corporations
• congressional intent underlying the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act supported reliance on state law definitions of “real property” for tax purposes
• definition of “real property” as used in a federal statute is a federal question

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).