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controlling. What is dispositive is that the right that the
Government claims to possess against petitioner as a transferee is
nonexistent but for the provisions of California State law, and
California has decided to provide only a temporal right against
transferees in these instances. Respondent and the majority may
regret that California did not provide a different rule than it
did, but it is not our province to legislate on behalf of the
States. In limited circumstances, as illustrated by the Summerlin
doctrine, we may ignore State statutes of limitations, but that is
the extent of our authority. To hold otherwise is an encroachment
on State sovereignty and raises problematic constitutional issues.
WHALEN, BEGHE, and THORNTON, JJ., agree with this dissenting
opinion.
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