Court Opinion

ID: 9459163
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 21:12:16.240186+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:36:02.816339
License: Public Domain

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge
(concurring) .
I concur fully in the decision and opinion of the Court. I add this only to clear up to the reader what might otherwise be a mystery: Why did this happen? Was the Government deliberately declining to participate in the Alabama quiet title action because of any genuine belief that § 2410 did not cover its potential claim? The answer is a plain no.
Indeed the only difficulty in this case is trying to articulate the Government’s thesis. The fact is, as the arguments revealed, this is a plain case of gross, glaring neglect in which the Attorney General’s Office and that of the local United States Attorney’s Office to each of whom the appropriate citations were twice sent, simply sat by “and did nothing.
The Government does a disservice to the laudable Congressional concept expressed in § 2410 by seeking a Judicial pardon on these dubious grounds for neglect of a kind for which they neither offer or can find an excuse.