United States Ninth Circuit

In proceedings arising when the government filed, and then executed in federal court on, a judgment lien against an award defendant recovered for unpaid disability income, a ruling ordering the government's lien enforced is reversed where federal property exemptions do not override California's property exemptions which explicitly exempt defendant's disability income from the judgment lien because: 1) the government chose to use California execution law; and 2) federal law did not preempt this state law on execution.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/08/2007
• Decided 08/30/2007
• Published 08/30/2007

Judges

• GOULD, Circuit Judge:, Before:  DANIEL M. FRIEDMAN,ALEX KOZINSKI, and RONALD M. GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rex K. DeGeorge, In Pro Per, Long Beach, CA, for appellants Rex K. and Kathryn Palmer DeGeorge.


• For Appellees:
  
• Brent Whittlesey, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, CA, for appellee United States of America.