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Nature of Suit Code: 870
Nature of Suit: Tax Suits
Cause of Action: 28:2410 Quiet Title

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US’ APPLICATION - 1 - 1367502.1

McGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

PAUL S. HAM

Trial Attorney, Tax Division

United States Department of Justice

P.O. Box 683, Ben Franklin Station

Washington, DC 20044-0683

Telephone: (202) 307-6421

Facsimile: (202) 307-0054

Attorneys for the United States of America

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CTC REAL ESTATE SERVICES,

Plaintiff,

v.

ALL CLAIMANTS TO SURPLUS FUNDS

AFTER TRUSTEES SALE ON REAL

PROPERTY LOCATED AT 407 WARD

ROAD, LOS BANOS, CALIFORNIA 93635,

Defendants.

Civil No. 1:05-CV-01259-OWW-DLB

[Merced County Superior Court Case No. 

148759]

UNITED STATES’ EX-PARTE 

APPLICATION FOR EXTENSION

OF TIME TO RESPOND TO

COMPLAINT, and ORDER

Defendant United States of America applies to this Court for an extension of time to respond to

the complaint recently removed to this Court from the Superior Court of California, Sacramento

County.

 1. On or about August 15, 2005, Plaintiff filed its Petition and Declaration Regarding

Unresolved Claims and Deposit of Undistributed Surplus Proceeds of Trustee’s Sale (hereinafter,

“Complaint”), case no. 148759, in Merced County Superior Court (a copy of the Complaint is

attached). Plaintiff, in its Complaint, alleges that defendants are potential claimants to surplus proceeds,

in the amount of $167,631.01, that were generated after Plaintiff, as trustee, sold certain real property

located in Mammoth, California. The United States Department of Justice, Tax Division received a

copy of the Complaint on or about September 12, 2005. 

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1

 Plaintiff neither served the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California

nor the United States Attorney General as required by 28 U.S.C. § 2410(b). See Service List (Attachment

8), attached to Complaint.

US’ APPLICATION - 2 - 1367502.1

2. Fed. R. Civ. P. 81(c) requires that a response to a complaint be filed within 20 days of

receipt of the complaint and within 5 days of the removal of the action to District Court, whichever is

longer. Thus, if the pleading had been filed originally in this court, the United States would have had 60

days from the date of service on the United States Attorney’s Office to respond. Fed. R. Civ. P.

12(a)(3)(A). However, the proper United States was not properly served.1

3. Accordingly, the United States requests a reasonable amount of time, until November

30, 2005, to file an answer or otherwise respond to the Complaint.

DATED this 30th day of September, 2005.

McGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

 /s/ - Paul Ham 

PAUL S. HAM

Trial Attorney, Tax Division

U.S. Department of Justice

P.O. Box 683

Ben Franklin Station

Washington, D.C. 20044

Telephone: (202) 307-6421

Facsimile: (202) 307-6421

Attorneys for the United States

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ORDER

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT the United States has through and including November 30,

2005, in which to serve a response to the Complaint.

/s/ OLIVER W. WANGER

Date: _October 14, 2005. ________________________________

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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