Opinion

Brown v. United States

  • 459 U.S. 1091
  • 51 U.S.L.W. 3460
  • 103 S. Ct. 579
  • 74 L. Ed. 2d 939
  • 1982 U.S. LEXIS 4763
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Filed
Dec 13, 1982
Status
Published
Cited by
59 cases
Authority
More cited than 92.2%

holding the § 106(c) codified the longstanding power of Congress to adversely affect state held liens in bankruptcy

How later courts described this case

  • holding the § 106(c) codified the longstanding power of Congress to adversely affect state held liens in bankruptcy
  • public welfare lien on real property of debtor under a signed public assistance reimbursement agreement containing confession of judgment provisions were judicial liens because the notes were not valid and enforceable until filed as judgments
  • pubhc welfare hen on real property of debtor, under a signed pubhc assistance reimbursement agreement containing confession of judgment provisions was judicial hen because the notes were not valid and enforceable until filed as judgments
  • Liens for reimbursement of public assistance were determined to be judicial liens under § 101(36) of the Bankruptcy Code, because the liens were judgments, entered on confessions of judgment executed by the debtor pre-petition.

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

This record has no opinion text. It is a disposition such as a denial of certiorari, kept so the case can be found by name and citation.

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