animal-seizure

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-5744 Warne Keahi Young v. Hawaii Island Humane Society, et al. Hawaii 2022-10-03 Denied IFP animal-seizure collateral-estoppel fourth-amendment hawaii-state-court intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress law-enforcement negligence reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure Is the standard of reasonableness under the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution the same as the standard of reasonableness under neglig…
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 The Montana State Supreme Court has decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by this Court, and it confl…
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…