Civil forfeiture allows the government (typically the police) to seize — and then keep or sell — any property that is allegedly involved in a crime or illegal activity. Owners need not ever be arrested or convicted of a crime for their cash,...
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Overview:
Broadly speaking, civil procedure consists of the rules by which courts conduct civil trials. "Civil trials" concern the judicial resolution of claims by one individual or class against another and are to be distinguished from "...
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In the early morning on June 21, 2000, in Flagstaff, Arizona, 17-year-old Eric Clark borrowed the keys to his brother's truck while his brother was sleeping. Clark repeatedly drove the truck around a nearby neighborhood for forty minutes,...
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On May 30, 2013, Petitioner Rodney Class (“Class”) parked his Jeep, which contained guns and ammunition, in a parking lot located on the Capitol grounds on the 200 block of Maryland Avenue, SW in Washington D.C. See Brief for Petitioner, Rodney Class...
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Petitioners Halima Culley and Lena Sutton both owned vehicles that were seized under Alabama laws which allow the state to hold, subject to civil forfeiture proceedings, property used to facilitate drug crimes. Culley v. Attorney Gen. at 2. On February...
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Facts
In March 1976, a right-wing military group organized a coup d’etat to overthrew Argentine President Isabel Peron.See Encyclopedia Britannica “Dirty War.” Soon after, this military dictatorship targeted suspected left-wing political opponents,...
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Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam, a Sri Lanka native, is of the Tamil ethnic minority and backed a Tamil political candidate. Thuraissigiam v. USDHS at 11–12. In June 2016, Thuraissigiam fled Sri Lanka to Mexico. Id. at 11. In February 2017, he entered the...
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In July 2010, Sandra Muñoz, a U.S. citizen, married Luis Asencio-Cordero, a citizen of El Salvador who first arrived in the United States in 2005. Muñoz v. Department of State at 8–9. Muñoz filed an immigration petition for Asencio-Cordero which was...
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Delilah Guadalupe Diaz lives in Moreno Valley, California. Brief for Respondent, the United States at 5. One night in August 2020, she drove across the border from Mexico into the United States. Id. She told a border patrol officer who inspected the...
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Oral argument: Mar. 2, 2009
Appealed from: United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit (April 2, 2008)
In 1994, William Osborne was convicted of kidnapping, first-degree sexual assault and first-degree assault by a jury in an Alaska trial...