United States v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that state redemption laws in foreclosure proceeding did not apply to United States based on “well-settled rule that Congress may impose conditions upon a waiver of the Government’s immunity from suit.”
• Kansas statute giving mortgagor exclusive right to redeem mortgage within one year of judicial foreclosure does not extinguish right of United States to redeem its interest within that period
• “the United States is not subject to local statutes of limitations”
• “the United States is not subject to local statutes of limitations”
• appropriation from Congress may be required for bid at foreclosure sale
• nullum tempus applies to action by United States to redeem mortgage

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).