government-seizure
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-401 | Alexander Carter, et al. v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-10-03 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-provisions due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment government-seizure property-rights | The circuits are divided on whether the Fourth Amendment protects property rights when a person's "papers and effects" remain in government custody af… |
| 25-95 | Michael Pung, Personal Representative of the Estate of Timothy Scott Pung v. Isabella County, Michigan | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-24 | Granted | Amici (26) | excessive-fine fair-market-value fifth-amendment government-seizure property-rights takings-clause | 1. Whether taking and selling a home to satisfy a debt to the government, and keeping the surplus value as a windfall, violates the Takings Clause of … |
| 24-6044 | Antonio Shropshire v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure government-seizure sixth-amendment testimonial-autonomy trial-preparation | Were Shropshire's Sixth Amendment rights violated by the government's seizure of his trial preparation documents? Did the government violate Shropshi… |
| 23-160 | Francisco Dario Mora v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-18 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 28-usc-2461 criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process government-seizure property-rights statutory-interpretation substitute-property temporary-possession | Whether the Government may require criminal defendants under 28 U.S.C. § 2461 to forfeit their own property as a substitute for objects they temporari… |
| 22-1149 | Pacific Carlton Development Corp., et al. v. New York State Urban Development Corporation, dba Empire State Development Corporation | New York | 2023-05-26 | Denied | certificate-of-occupancy certificates-of-occupancy due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-regulation government-seizure property-rights takings | Are government-issued attributes of private property (e.g., certificates of occupancy, building permits, business permits) entitled to constitutional … | |
| 22-237 | Sandra K. Nieveen v. TAX 106, et al. | Nebraska | 2022-09-13 | GVR | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines government-seizure just-compensation property-rights takings-clause tax-sale | Under Nebraska's tax sale scheme, the state stole the full value of Sandra K. Nieveen's home by allowing a private investor to take title after paying… |
| 22-160 | Kevin L. Fair v. Continental Resources, et al. | Nebraska | 2022-08-22 | GVR | Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | due-process equity-forfeiture excessive-fine excessive-fines government-seizure just-compensation property-rights takings-clause tax-foreclosure | Kevin and Terry Fair fell behind on their property taxes after medical problems caused severe financial hardship. When they failed to pay $5,200 in ta… |
| 21-5617 | Akube Wuromoni Ndoromo v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | District of Columbia | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-protections civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment government-seizure | • Is the Federal Government entitled to rob peoples Bank Accounts therein? • Does Fourth (VI) Amendment protect the right of the people to be secure t… |
| 21-5321 | Jerome Kieffer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-privacy civil-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech government-seizure standing | (1) Does the unconstitutionally vague language, stack down, as by the Court in USC 10@) Apply to 18 USC 72a¢g)(L)? (2) May a Stipulation Suffice to C… |
| 20-7008 | Bradley Dearborn v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process government-seizure property-rights standing | Does a district court have an obligation to follow Fed.R. Civ. P. 52(a) when issuing opinions and orders in a non-jury action? |
| 20-7002 | Ryan C. Lander v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech government-seizure plea-bargaining search-and-seizure warrantless-search | — is it covsrmcp 0*' 1- 7c» Hos^cux^ cin^^s r>^ PoaudOidABM^ 0TH6& CQiMes UjufteH The "lATfzesTrrz Coaimgacg * cuuf^r t^CA^er in& CofopiAT&K- ok oTk&f… |
| 20-6495 | Michael Alford v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment government-seizure personal-property property-return property-rights riley-v-california search-and-seizure | 1. Whether the court erred in refusing to return personal property. 2. Whether a person has a constitutional right to obtain their own "personal and … |
| 20-567 | Ohio, ex rel. Elliot Feltner v. Cuyahoga County Board of Revision, et al. | Ohio | 2020-10-30 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | due-process equity-windfall government-seizure just-compensation property-rights surplus-equity takings-clause tax-delinquency | When confiscating property to satisfy a delinquent debt, does it violate the Takings Clause for government to take property worth far more than what i… |
| 19-1113 | Peter R. Rumbin v. Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-dismissal due-process equitable-estoppel government-seizure plaut-v-spendthrift-farms property-rights standing takings u.s.-government-v.-espinosa | 1. Whether the courts should overrule the decision of the District Court of Connecticut (11-cv-904 (CSH)), which granted the Respondents' motion to di… |
| 19-7552 | Joseph Michael Guarascio v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights compensation constitutional-violation digital-data digital-evidence due-process evidence-retention government-seizure law-enforcement property-rights | CAN THE GOVERNMENT RETAIN INDEFINITELY PETITIONER'S SEIZED BUSINESS AND PERSONAL ELECTRONIC FILES, DIGITAL DATA AND OTHER PHYSICAL PROPERTY WHEN SAID … |
| 18-7524 | Roger L. Harrison, Jr., et al. v. Charlotte H. Huggins, et al. | Illinois | 2019-01-23 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process government-seizure indigent-rights necessary-parties petition-clause petition-for-redress petition-rights recusal seizure-of-property standing takings trust-property | The Peter Lux Jr. Estate of ±960 acres of prime farmland was settled in 1923.(App.113a) Moultrie County Judge John Laughlin also signed in 1936 the 36… |
| 18-405 | Shabnam Dastmalchian v. Department of Justice, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-01 | Denied | Response Waived | asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-immunity government-overreach government-seizure innocent-third-party property-rights takings third-party-property | Whether the interplay of the Constitution, Fed.R.Crim.P. 7(c)(2), and 21 U.S.C. § 853 allow government employees to seize an innocent third party Cali… |
| 18-195 | William S. Poff v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-14 | GVR | exemption exemptions federal-seizure-law government-seizure incarceration-payments mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution restitution-enforcement seizure service-connected-disability statutory-exemption statutory-interpretation substantial-resources veterans-disability-benefits | Petitioner is a disabled military veteran currently serving a federal prison sentence. While incarcerated, Petitioner is entitled to approximately $13… |