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 |