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A quiet bench on the Quiet Title Act: Justices hold muted debate on statute of limitations

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

The dispute involves the Forest Service’s decision to permit general public use of a road near the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana. Wilkins and the government fought in the lower courts over whether the suit, filed many years after the general public use began, was timely. It has stare decisis effect.”

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Are timing limits on property owners’ claims jurisdictional?

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JUNE 2, 2022

The district court held that the federal Quiet Title Act’s 12-year statute of limitations is jurisdictional, concluded that a reasonable landowner would have known that the government had been permitting public use of the road since the 1970s, and dismissed the case. We have just one new relist this week. In Wilkins v.

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A quiet bench on the Quiet Title Act: Justices hold muted debate on statute of limitations

Are timing limits on property owners’ claims jurisdictional?

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