civil-asset-forfeiture

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7227 Lonnie Loren Kocontes v. California California 2025-05-16 Denied IFP civil-asset-forfeiture claim-preclusion due-process federal-judgment issue-preclusion state-criminal-prosecution Does the Due Process Clause require a state to apply issue and/or claim preclusion to a federal judgment in a state criminal prosecution, and under wh…
22-6200 In Re Terry Lopez 2022-12-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus innocent-owner-doctrine standing supreme-court-jurisdiction takings Whether the abuse of discretion and mistake of law perpetuated by The Fifth Circuit runs afoul of the Supreme Court's holding in Timbs v. Indiana, Feb…
20-8030 Reginald Tremaine Wilson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2021-05-14 Denied IFP civil-asset-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment property-rights seizure sentencing standing Whether the court can compare Wilson's vagueness on an element to suggest possession with intent to sell and deliver
19-1222 Nathan Duckworth v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-04-16 Denied civil-asset-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-concerns controlled-substances-act due-process property-rights seizure-of-currency standing substantial-connection-test takings tenth-circuit Whether the government is required to show a substantial connection between money it has seized and an intended violation of the Controlled Substances…
19-8121 Nikkolas Thompson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP admiralty-rules burden-of-proof civil-asset-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-challenge currency-seizure due-process pleading-standards standing Whether the 2000 amendments to the Civil Asset Forfeiture act are constitutional where it requires a Claimant to prove the source of the funds in ques…
19-6768 Cary VanDerMeulen v. Thomas L. Leclaire, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment abuse-of-authority civil-asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-abuse law-enforcement-misconduct property-rights standing takings When are the Federal Courts going to take-up the cause concerning the violation(s) of Constitutional Law and abuse(s) of authority by the States of th…
19-217 DaVinci Aircraft, Inc. v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied Response Waived bivens-claim bivens-v-six-unknown-named-agents civil-asset-forfeiture civil-asset-forfeiture-reform-act civil-rights discretionary-action espionage-act federal-tort-claims-act fourth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the exception for forfeitures created by the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA) apply to goods seized in violation of the Fourth A…
19-5284 Salvatore J. Moretti v. Bergen County Prosecutor's Office New Jersey 2019-07-24 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery civil-asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process innocent-owner-defense jurisdictional-challenge opra police-misconduct political-corruption property-rights prosecutorial-misconduct standing Has Appellant Proven Liability in the Respondents, Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, Given the High-Profile Case Which Was Briefed by Deborah Poritz,…