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U.S. ON BEHALF OF U.S. COAST GUARD v. CERIO

Civ. A. No. 93-42-A.

831 F.Supp. 530 (1993)

UNITED STATES of America, on Behalf of the UNITED STATES COAST GUARD, Plaintiff, v. Daniel A. CERIO, as Executor of the Estate of Robert T. Alexander, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Virginia, Alexandria Division.

August 31, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Christopher Kohn, Robert M. Hollis, James J. Faughnan, Attorneys, Civil Div., Commercial Litigation Branch, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Andrew S. Pessin, General Law Div., Office of the Chief Counsel, U.S. Coast Guard, Washington, DC, Richard Parker, Asst. U.S. Atty., Alexandria, VA, for plaintiff.

Fred C. Alexander, Jr., McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, Alexandria, VA, for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ELLIS, District Judge.

I.

This is a rare case. How often, after all, does the recipient of a generous bequest object to that bequest and threaten to reject it on the ground that it is too generous? Yet that is precisely what has occurred here. Indeed, this is essentially a case of looking the gift horse in the mouth and finding it too good to accept as is.

More particularly, this unique dispute concerns the validity...

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