United States v. William J. McCorkle

How courts have described this case

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• holding that in order to apply equitable estoppel against the government, affirmative misconduct must be shown, and “[a]ffirmative misconduct requires more than governmental negligence or inaction”
• “Affirmative misconduct requires more than governmental negligence or inaction; otherwise, prong two and prong four would be redundant.”
• “Government inaction does not give rise to an estoppel claim... .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).