asset-seizure
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A732 | Anastasios M. Smalis v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Third Circuit | 2025-12-22 | Application | asset-seizure collection-action due-process iRS-notice jurisdictional-challenge tax-court-jurisdiction | Question not identified. | |
| 25-501 | Jennifer Young, et vir v. Collect Co. | California | 2025-10-23 | Denied | asset-seizure court-order due-process judicial-misconduct jurisdiction legal-standing | 1. Whether it violates the Constitution for a state judge without jurisdiction to reopen a closed judgment and order the prevailing judgment creditors… | |
| 25-465 | Timothy Barton v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-16 | Pending | Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse Waived | asset-seizure constitutional-limits due-process equitable-relief fifth-circuit securities-law | The United States Government brought parallel crim-inal and civil enforcement actions against Petitioner Tim-othy Barton, alleging violations of the s… |
| 25A265 | Timothy Barton v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-05 | Presumed Complete | asset-seizure due-process equitable-relief preliminary-injunction receivership securities-law | Whether the Securities and Exchange Commission can obtain a prejudgment receivership seizing entire companies without demonstrating clear necessity an… | |
| 25-161 | Surgery Center Management, LLC v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | asset-seizure criminal-law forfeiture proceeds property-rights statutory-interpretation | Whether in a forfeiture action seeking "proceeds," defined in 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(2)(A) as "property of any kind obtained directly or indirectly, as th… |
| 24-7494 | Jesse Lavadis Crawford v. Michigan | Michigan | 2025-06-25 | Denied | IFP | asset-seizure circuit-court drug-transaction due-process post-deprivation-hearing proportionality | Whether a Circuit Court must apply a specific test for determining when a post-deprivation hearing is required under the Due Process Clause, and wheth… |
| 24-1086 | America West Bank Members, LC v. Utah, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-04-17 | Denied | Response Waived | asset-seizure civil-procedure due-process fdic-receivership federal-rule-54c state-official-action | Whether a court is obligated to afford relief under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(c) when relief was not sufficiently requested, and whether due … |
| 24-6055 | Sandra Lee Bart v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | asset-seizure compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process fraud-on-court government-motion | Whether fraud on the court occurred through improper government motions depriving petitioner of due process and compulsory process rights in asset sei… |
| 23-987 | Shalini Ahmed v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Second Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Denied | asset-seizure civil-rights disgorgement due-process equitable-limitations equitable-limits judicial-review nominee-doctrine pullman-standard-v-swint sec-enforcement sec-v-liu | Whether the value of assets unilaterally seized by the alleged victim should be offset against disgorgement, and whether the value of shares returned … | |
| 23-945 | Ilana Bangiyeva v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-29 | Denied | Response Waived | asset-seizure civil-procedure criminal-procedure district-court due-process forfeiture judicial-review legal-interest property-forfeiture property-rights standing united-states-government | What is the appropriate test to determine whether petitioner has a sufficient legal interest in forfeited property |
| 23-512 | Steven M. Greenbaum, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Judith (Shoshana) Lillian Greenbaum, Deceased, et al. v. United States | District of Columbia | 2023-11-15 | Denied | Response Waived | asset-freezing asset-seizure blocked-assets federal-law federal-sovereign-immunity judgment-enforcement sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation terrorism-based-judgments terrorism-risk-insurance-act | Whether the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act waives the United States' federal sovereign immunity over assets that have been seized or frozen by the Unite… |
| 23-5706 | Darrell Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | asset-seizure circuit-split constitutional-rights corporate-representation due-process indigent-company legal-counsel representative-counsel restitution | can-the-courts-prosecute-indigent-companies-without-legal-representation |
| 21-1600 | Jian-Yun Dong, aka John Dong v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-28 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2461c asset-seizure breach-of-contract contract-breach criminal-forfeiture federal-criminal-law honeycutt-precedent honeycutt-v-united-states ownership-interest personal-gain statutory-interpretation | Whether a criminal forfeiture judgment is permitted under Honeycutt v. United States |
| 20-8434 | Robert L. Henning v. Michigan State Treasurer | Michigan | 2021-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | asset-seizure civil-procedure due-process enforcement-action jurisdiction jurisdictional-boundaries legal-jurisdiction michigan-court post-judgment-enforcement state-treasurer | Did the state treasurer violate jurisdictional boundaries by proceeding to seize petitioner's assets held in Minnesota without filing a post judgment … |
| 19-7859 | Marlon Blacher v. California | California | 2020-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | asset-seizure civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process due-process judicial-procedure neutral-hearing penal-code property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings | Whether the California courts' denial of an evidentiary hearing is unreasonable and violates due process |
| 19-7399 | Frederick Charles Harris, II v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law asset-seizure civil-procedure due-process irs jurisdiction tax-law | Why was my demand denied when the defendant, the Commissioner of the IRS, admitted in writing that they didn't have jurisdiction to take my assets? |
| 18-9246 | Anthony G. Bryant v. Department of Education, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | administrative-procedure asset-seizure civil-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines first-amendment fourteenth-amendment tenth-amendment | Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 18-8905 | Anthony G. Bryant v. Army Corps of Engineers, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 10th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process first-amendment sixth-amendment 10th-amendment 14th-amendment administrative-procedure asset-seizure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourth-amendment | Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to asset seizures by state and local governments |
| 18-1253 | Brian Mark Burmaster v. Switzerland | Third Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | 18-usc-229 asset-seizure chemical-weapon chemical-weapons civil-rights diplomatic-immunity due-process embassy-contact extradition federal-statute international-law international-terrorism standing swiss-assets terrorism uncontested-proceedings writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Supreme Court should punish Switzerland for an alleged chemical weapon attack on a U.S. citizen by enforcing a lien on Swiss assets, despi… | |
| 18-5011 | Xavier Cardona v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review asset-seizure burden-of-proof civil-forfeiture currency-seizure drug-trafficking drug-transaction due-process evidence-standard judicial-conversion procedural-due-process property-rights sentencing-guidelines | Was the court of appeals correct in affirming the district court's conversion of the petitioner's seized cash into cocaine when there was no evidence … |