BERKSHIRE BANK v. TOWN OF LUDLOW, MASS.

No. 12-1625.

708 F.3d 249 (2013)

BERKSHIRE BANK, Plaintiff, v. TOWN OF LUDLOW, MA, Defendant, Appellant, Douglas Shulman, Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service; United States of America, Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

January 11, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

José A. Aguiar , with whom Doherty, Wallace, Pillsbury and Murphy, P.C. was on brief, for appellant.

Kenneth W. Rosenberg , Tax Division, United States Department of Justice, with whom Kathryn Keneally , Assistant Attorney General, and Thomas J. Clark , Tax Division, United States Department of Justice, were on brief, for appellees.

Before BOUDIN, SELYA and STAHL, Circuit Judges.


STAHL, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents the question of whether a company that owned a particular parcel of land was the "nominee" of a delinquent taxpayer for purposes of a federal tax lien that attached to all of the taxpayer's property. We conclude that it was and therefore affirm the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the United States.

William A. Livermore owned approximately fifteen acres of undeveloped land in Ludlow, Massachusetts...

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