Larry Wilkins v. United States

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

LARRY STEVEN WILKINS; JANE No. 20-35745

B. STANTON,

D.C. No. 9:18-cv- Plaintiffs-Appellants, 00147-DLC

v.

ORDER

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Defendant-Appellee.

On Remand from the United States Supreme Court

Filed May 8, 2023

Before: EBEL, * BRESS, and VANDYKE, Circuit Judges.

* The Honorable David M. Ebel, United States Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, sitting by designation. SUMMARY **

Quiet Title Act

On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court in Wilkins v. United States, 143 S. Ct. 870, 871 (2023) (holding that the Quiet Title Act’s 12-year time limitation, 28 U.S.C. § 2409a(g), is a non-jurisdictional claims-processing rule, and reversing a decision of the Ninth Circuit, published at 13 F.4th 791 (9th Cir. 2021)), the panel remanded to the district court for further proceedings consistent with the Supreme Court’s decision.

COUNSEL

Jeffrey W. McCoy (argued), Pacific Legal Foundation, Highlands Ranch, Colorado; Damien M. Schiff and Ethan Blevins, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, California; James M. Manley,…