civil-forfeiture
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24-1252 | Real Property commonly known as: 11475 NW Pike Road, Yamhill, Oregon, Yamhill County and any residence, buildings, or storage facilities thereon, et al. v. Yamhill County, Oregon and forfeiting agency, on behalf of the YCINT seizing agency | Oregon | 2025-06-06 | Denied | civil-forfeiture constitutional-interpretation criminal-punishment double-jeopardy in-rem-proceeding property-rights | Whether civil forfeiture of property constitutes criminal punishment under the Double Jeopardy Clause and whether United States v. Ursery remains cons… | |
| 24-990 | Nina Elmendorf-Steele v. Michigan | Michigan | 2025-03-18 | Denied | animal-control civil-forfeiture euthanasia government-proceeding judicial-district standard-of-proof | Does a civil forfeiture proceeding brought by the government against an animal require the clear and convincing standard of proof? | |
| 24A278 | Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board | Federal Circuit | 2024-09-18 | Presumed Complete | civil-forfeiture due-process federal-employment fifth-amendment first-amendment whistleblower-protection | Whether the Fifth Amendment and First Amendment protect a federal employee's due process rights and right to petition when challenging civil forfeitur… | |
| 23-1164 | Battle Born Investments Company, LLC, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-29 | Denied | burden-of-proof circuit-split civil-forfeiture ownership-interest ownership-standing property-claim standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment | Where a claimant asserts an ownership interest, does the claimant's standing at summary judgment require only some evidence of ownership, or also an e… | |
| 23-1050 | Luis Sanchez, et al. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-22 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | amendment circuit-split civil-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture pleading pleading-deficiency statutory-interpretation | Whether a timely-filed 21 U.S.C. § 853(n) petition may be amended to cure a pleading deficiency after the 30-day filing period has run |
| 23A816 | Battle Born Investments Company, LLC, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-05 | Presumed Complete | burden-of-proof civil-forfeiture cryptocurrency-seizure due-process standing-requirement summary-judgment | Whether the Due Process Clause requires courts to allow civil forfeiture claimants to establish standing through prima facie evidence of ownership wit… | |
| 23A722 | Luis Sanchez, et al. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-05 | Presumed Complete | article-iii-standing civil-forfeiture concrete-injury pleading-amendment property-seizure section-853(n) | Whether a timely-filed Section 853(n) civil forfeiture petition can be amended when the government identifies a pleading deficiency and whether an int… | |
| 23A628 | Gerald Ostipow, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Royetta L.. Ostipow v. William L. Federspiel | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-08 | Presumed Complete | civil-forfeiture constitutional-rights fifth-amendment property-rights state-law takings-clause | Whether a county sheriff's office violates the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause by refusing to return nonforfeited property or proceeds after a civil … | |
| 22-1059 | Jorge Marc Gonzalez-Betancourt v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-03 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-forfeiture collateral-estoppel controlled-substances double-jeopardy exhaustion fifth-amendment ruan-v-united-states state-prosecution | Is Florida violating federal rights of its prisoners by preventing a defendant from arguing collateral-estoppel, claiming-exhaustion? |
| 22-996 | Tawanda Hall, et al. v. Andrew Meisner, Oakland County Treasurer, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-13 | Denied | civil-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-punishment constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause property-forfeiture takings tax-foreclosure | Whether the forfeiture of property worth far more than needed to satisfy a debt plus interest, penalties, and costs is a fine within the meaning of th… | |
| 22-7132 | Abraham A. Augustin v. Bradley County Sheriff's Office, et al. | Tennessee | 2023-03-28 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process illegal-seizure legal-standing property-rights standing takings | Whether a claim for missing property that was never forfeited nor returned to the property owner should be dismissed and dependent upon a favorable ou… |
| 22-801 | Ameen Salaam v. Illinois, ex. rel. Kimberly Foxx | Illinois | 2023-02-23 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-forfeiture civil-judicial-forfeiture due-process in-rem-jurisdiction judicial-procedure notice notice-requirement passage-of-time void-judgment | Whether a court can enter a final judgment without the notice required by the due process clause |
| 22-6516 | Abraham A. Augustin v. Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security | Tennessee | 2023-01-11 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-forfeiture constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-protections property-rights takings united-states-constitution | Whether the forfeiture of Augustin's property comported with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 22-166 | Geraldine Tyler v. Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-23 | Judgment Issued | Amici (44)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | civil-forfeiture constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fine excessive-fines government-forfeiture property-rights takings-clause tax-debt | Whether the government's retention of surplus proceeds from the sale of a home to satisfy a tax debt violates the Takings Clause |
| 21-7124 | Pamela Polejewski v. Montana | Montana | 2022-02-16 | Denied | IFP | animal-seizure civil-forfeiture constitutional-rights due-process excessive-fines innocent-owner procedural-violations res-judicata takings vagueness | Are Animal Cost for Caring Civil Forfeiture Laws Constitutional |
| 21-472 | Blanca Telephone Company v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-law appellate-review civil-forfeiture debt-collection due-process false-claims-act rulemaking universal-service-fund | Whether FCC staff seizure of Universal Service Fund funding via civil forfeiture is 'pure debt collection' under the Debt Collection Improvement Act o… |
| 20-1493 | Stephen Nichols v. Wayne County, Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-26 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | civil-forfeiture constitutional-hearing constitutional-rights due-process municipal-policy municipal-seizure neutral-judge prompt-hearing property-deprivation vehicle-rights | Whether due process requires municipalities to provide a prompt hearing before denying vehicle owner continued possession and use |
| 20-1385 | Tarek Obaid v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-02 | Denied | 28-usc-1355 civil-forfeiture due-process in-rem in-rem-jurisdiction minimum-contacts pennoyer-v-neff property-situs shaffer-v-heitner statutory-interpretation | Does the Due Process Clause require application of the minimum-contacts test to in-rem proceedings? | |
| 20-1290 | In Re Adesijuola Ogunjobi | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights class-action covid-19 covid-19-challenge doj-officials due-process intervention-motion loan-blocking standing statutory-relief | Whether DOJ officials have the authority to block $25,000,000 in loan secured by Petitioner to retain attorneys to prosecute the COVID-19 class action… | |
| 20-1184 | Kee Food, Inc., et al. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2021-02-25 | Denied | civil-forfeiture due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment meaningful-hearing property-rights state-seizure | Whether the meaningful hearing aspect of due process is satisfied when a party faced with state seizure and retention of property under civil forfeitu… | |
| 20-768 | Gerardo Serrano v. United States Customs and Border Protection, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-04 | Denied | Amici (1) | appropriate-case civil-forfeiture due-process federal-law government-action legal-detention post-seizure-hearing split-in-circuits vehicle-seizure | Does due process require a prompt post-seizure hearing for civil forfeiture? |
| 19-8284 | In Re Michael A. Young | 2020-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-forfeiture contraband due-process just-compensation standing takings-clause | Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the Takings Clause does not prohibit the government from seizing private property without just compens… | |
| 19-970 | Retail Ready Career Center, Inc. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-03 | Denied | Amici (1) | 5th-amendment civil-forfeiture constitutional-counterclaims due-process fifth-amendment in-rem in-rem-proceeding seizure-of-funds sovereign-immunity | Does the United States have complete immunity from constitutional counterclaims asserted in an in rem civil forfeiture case initiated by the United St… |
| 19-6973 | Taiwan Wiggins, et al. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof civil-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment standing warrantless-seizure | Where a DEA agent stops two air travelers, who had been cleared, to board their flights, and takes from them (in a warrantless seizure) a sum of money… |
| 19-659 | Miladis Salgado v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-21 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 28-usc-2465 abuse-of-discretion civil-forfeiture claimant court-dismissal dismissal dismissal-without-prejudice federal-procedure judicial-discretion legal-prevailing-party prevail prevailing-party statutory-interpretation without-prejudice | When does a civil forfeiture claimant 'substantially prevail' under 28 U.S.C. § 2465(b)(1)? |
| 19-644 | Melba L. Ford v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Response Waived | anomalies civil-forfeiture constitutional-rights doj due-process irs judicial-review legal-assistance right-to-counsel standing | Does a defendant in an IRS/DoJ civil forfeiture proceeding have a constitutionally protected, due process right to counsel? |
| 19-6396 | Charles Jordan v. John H. Magill, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-25 | Denied | IFP | civil-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-law-enforcement due-process equal-protection jurisdiction just-compensation standing takings-clause | Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the Takings Clause does not prohibit the government from taking private property without just compensa… |
| 19-6062 | Priscilla Daydee Valdez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924 18-usc-924d 21-usc-853 28-usc-2461 28-usc-2461c ammunition civil-forfeiture criminal-forfeiture firearms firearms-offense procedural-law statutory-interpretation substitute-assets | May a defendant be required to forfeit substitute property in lieu of the firearms and ammunition subject to forfeiture under 18 U.S.C. § 924(d)? |
| 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 |
| 18-884 | Brenda Jeffrey v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment animal-law animal-seizure civil-forfeiture criminal-proceedings due-process fourteenth-amendment matthews-test property-rights sentell-vs-new-orleans | whether, under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause, a state can seize and later permanently deprive a defendant of her property, an animal i… |
| 18-767 | Ancient Coin Collectors Guild v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-17 | Denied | Response Waived | 5th-amendment archaeological-objects burden-of-proof civil-forfeiture cultural-property due-process export-control import-restrictions prospective-application unesco-convention | Did the courts below violate the Guild's 5th Amendment Due Process Rights when they authorized the forfeiture of the Guild's private property without … |
| 18-576 | Robert H. Wright, Jr. v. Jerald Watson, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment civil-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution police-misconduct probable-cause standing | Is a malicious prosecution claim under the Fourth Amendment and Manuel v. City of Joliet the proper civil remedy for an 'overcharge' prosecution? |
| 18-6106 | James L. Miller v. Amir Kashani, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-26 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-forfeiture civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires the government to provide a hearing before seizing a person's property for civil forfei… |
| 18-270 | Damian Phillips v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-04 | Denied | Response Waived | article-iii article-iii-standing civil-forfeiture civil-procedure due-process evidence lujan-test procedural-standing standing summary-judgment third-party-evidence | Whether a claimant in a civil forfeiture proceeding has established sufficient Article III standing to withstand summary judgment and proceed to trial |
| 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 … |