property-forfeiture

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A849 Michael Prime v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-29 Application appellate-review cryptocurrency-seizure federal-jurisdiction motion-to-reconsider property-forfeiture rule-41g Question not identified.
25-246 Kenneth J. Jouppi v. Alaska Alaska 2025-09-03 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-law culpability due-process excessive-fines judicial-standard property-forfeiture Whether, in determining whether a fine contravenes the Excessive Fines Clause, courts may consider the gravity of the underlying offense purely in the…
24-7146 Anida Gilowski v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-proceedings due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment property-forfeiture sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights were violated by forfeiture of real properties purchased with her own litigation income
24-5938 John Charles Schnekenburger v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-USC-2253 circuit-split criminal-procedure non-contraband-seizure property-forfeiture statutory-interpretation Whether the scope of 18 USC §2253 allows for forfeiture of property contents and whether a criminal defendant can recover non-contraband items from fo…
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
23A435 Ilana Bangiyeva v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-11-15 Presumed Complete alter-ego circuit-split criminal-defendant nominee-interest property-forfeiture state-law-implications Whether a third-party nominee of a criminal defendant can challenge property forfeiture based on the defendant's criminal conduct when the third party…
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…
22-5772 Rollie Andre Lott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process hearing-request inmate-mail-system property-forfeiture property-seizure seizure-and-forfeiture Whether the petitioner was denied due process and constitutional rights when the lower court ignored the petitioner's request for a hearing regarding …
21-1491 City of Kent, Washington v. Adrian Jacobo-Hernandez Washington 2022-05-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process excessive-fines felony felony-instrumentality forfeiture livelihood-preservation property-forfeiture Whether the Excessive Fines Clause provides a livelihood preservation protection which can prevent the forfeiture of the instrumentality of a felony?
21-990 Aldrich L. Boss, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Stewart R. Crane v. United States, et al. First Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment bona-fide-purchase fifth-amendment forfeiture innocent-owner-defense property-forfeiture public-record standing takings-clause Whether the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause permits the establishment of a new category of property for forfeiture purposes
20-5343 James Brome v. United States Second Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law due-process forfeiture jones-v-flowers mail-delivery notice notice-requirements prisoner prisoner-notice property-forfeiture statutory-notice What level of notice is required when providing a prisoner with notice that his property will be forfeited?
19-1438 George Abernathy v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment free-speech property-forfeiture standing summary-judgment takings Whether the Court has abandoned the principle that 'one constitutional right should not have to be surrendered in order to assert another'
19-7848 Barton Joseph Adams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP binding-plea-agreement criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11-c-1-c criminal-procedure-rule-32-2-e-1-a district-court-misconduct due-process forfeiture plea-agreement property-forfeiture property-rights protective-order rule-11 rule-32.2 sealed-court-order sealing-orders sentencing sentencing-procedure Whether the lower court violated the mandatory requirements of Rule 32.2(e)(1)(A) and breached the Rule 11(c)(1)(C) binding sentence
19-6486 Eduard Bangiyev v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1963 21-usc-853 co-conspirator-liability conspiracy criminal-forfeiture federal-statute personal-possession-or-use proceeds-of-crime property-forfeiture statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-honeycutt Whether the elements that availed the Supreme court decision in United States v. Honeycutt also apply more broadly to the 18 U.S.C.S. 1963 statute