property-seizure

48 cases — ← All topics

Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-755 The Society of Apostolic Church Ministries Bishop, Elizabeth Gardner Corporation Sole and Her Successors v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response Waived church-autonomy church-property first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-interference ministerial-exemption property-seizure religious-freedom-restoration-act I. Whether the Ninth Circuit permitted the government to violate the First Amendment of the Constitution, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Estab…
25A616 Harriet Nicholson v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York, Trustee for the Certificate Holders of CWMBS, Inc., CWMBS Reforming Loan Remic Trust Certificates Series 005-R2 Second Circuit 2025-11-25 Application certiorari constitutional-rights emergency-application pro-se property-seizure time-extension Question not identified.
25A611 Paul Kenneth Cromar v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-24 Application criminal-statute pro-se-petition property-seizure statutory-interpretation tax-law tenth-circuit Whether 26 U.S.C. § 7212(b), which criminalizes forcible rescue of "property after it shall have been seized under this title," applies to property ju…
25A148 Harry Barnett v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause property-seizure section-1983 warrantless-arrest Question not identified.
24A1276 Andrew Grimm v. City of Portland, Oregon Ninth Circuit 2025-06-24 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process mullane-test predeprivation-notice property-seizure technology-communication Question not identified.
24-7002 In Re Clifford L. Noll 2025-04-16 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP debt-collection due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment fourth-amendment property-seizure 1.) Did the unwarranted seizure of my real properties and personal savings account by UNITED STATES violate my rights under the 4th Amendment? 2.) Di…
24-6806 Torrey-Tyree Lewis v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society Pennsylvania 2025-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure procedural-due-process property-seizure replevin "Does the seizure of all the Petitioners belongings, without providing notice or obtaining consent, and based on a writ that wasn't addressed to the P…
24-833 Aklilu Yohannes v. Olympic Collection Inc. (OCI), et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process garnishment-statute pre-deprivation-hearing property-seizure state-actor In the District Courts of Washington, creditors' attorneys may issue writs of garnishment on behalf of the court, and for the benefit of their client.…
24-6405 Sidney Joseph v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process federal-enforcement property-seizure restitution separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation (1) Does the Fifth Circuit's interpretation of the phrase "all other available and reasonable means" in 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 3664(m)(1)(A)(ii) to m…
24-360 Sikousis Legacy, Inc., et al. v. B-Gas Limited, aka Bepalo LPG Shipping Ltd., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response Waived admiralty-jurisdiction attachment-case equitable-principles judicial-discretion maritime-law property-seizure Whether a court exercising jurisdiction in an admiralty attachment case, whereby it must decide the ownership of the property seized based on the equi…
24-326 Ricardo Devengoechea v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Third Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied circuit-conflict commercial-activity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act implied-waiver judgment-execution property-seizure Title 28 U.S.C. § 1610(a)(1) of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act provides that a foreign country which suffers a judgment against it may waive its…
24-5251 Keith Vernon Davis v. David Close, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale Third Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP counsel-conflict due-process judicial-determination probable-cause property-seizure sixth-amendment 1. WHETHER AN INDEPENDENT JUDICIAL DETERMINATION WAS MADE OF PROBABLE CAUSE OR A WARRANT ISSUED 1/22/2017 AT INCIDENT No. 20170122M1328 PRIOR TO ENTRY…
23-1110 Gerald S. Ostipow, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Royetta L. Ostipow v. William L. Federspiel Sixth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights property-seizure taking takings Does the non-return and indefinite retention of non-forfeited private property (or its monetary equivalent), when initially seized for a criminal inve…
23A722 Luis Sanchez, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-05 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing civil-forfeiture concrete-injury pleading-amendment property-seizure section-853(n) Whether (1) a District Court has the discretion to provide a civil forfeiture claimant an opportunity to amend a timely-filed 21 U.S.C. § 853(n) petit…
23-6465 Lewis Slaughter v. New York New York 2024-01-12 Denied IFP appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure due-process judicial-process legal-petition notice opportunity-to-be-heard property-seizure supreme-court takings Question not identified.
23A604 Zehava Friedman, et al. v. Republic of Hungary, et al. District of Columbia 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete foreign-sovereign-immunities holocaust-survivors international-law jurisdiction property-seizure world-war-two Question not identified.
23-6145 Daniel E. Salley v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process internal-revenue-service mental-competency mental-health-defense property-rights property-seizure statute-of-limitations tax-law treasury-offset-program Wfoe4-Ke.tr cl collate c^m-duofe, <3uaA swccessfwA busn^e sswiaw ou/rt€.T of ex small 0-CCOuvvHincj ctffevr jpreiwelmo^ sev/evcv) a.u.di'fs cxW jr\ne …
23-6032 James William Thomas, III v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment common-law-presumption-of-ownership fourth-amendment property-seizure reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure search-warrant standing trespassory-test Whether a defendant has standing to challenge the search of property seized from his residence pursuant to a search warrant based upon both the common…
23-5898 Christian Hayward v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection privacy-interest property-seizure search-and-seizure standing texas-v-brown united-states-v-place 1) DID THE LOWER COURT VIOLATE DUE PROCESS AND/OR EQUAL PROTECTION BY FAILING BY FAILING TO RECOGNIZE THAT HAYWARD HAD A PRIVACY POSSESSORY INTEREST I…
23-5756 David Davalos, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-forfeiture criminal-law due-process Fifth-Circuit forfeiture Honeycutt-v-United-States property-rights property-seizure statutory-interpretation tainted-property Whether Honeycutt v. United States, 581 U.S. 443 (2017) and its progeny require the Fifth Circuit to limit forfeiture to tainted property the defendan…
22-7602 James Franklin Snyder v. Idaho Idaho 2023-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process judicial-review police-misconduct property-seizure qualified-immunity standing state-court-jurisdiction Question not identified.
22-6631 Larry Welenc v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2023-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure due-process internal-revenue-service irs notice-of-intent property-rights property-seizure seizure tax-law tax-levy taxpayer-rights 1,) Can the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service issue a NON Final Intent of Notice for immediate payment of Amount Due, to be paid within a d…
22-603 Jevarreo Kelley-Lomax v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response Waived bailee-duty bailment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment pre-trial-detention property-rights property-seizure May a municipality, consistent with the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, sell or destroy property seized for safekeeping from an arrestee, merely bec…
22-6305 Kaleb L. Basey v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment campbell-ewald civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourth-amendment government-liability property-rights property-seizure rule-41g standing This petition presents the following question: Whether a person seeking return of illegally seized property under Fed. R. Crim. P. Rule 41(e) has an …
22-427 William Verrinder v. City of Lewiston, Maine Maine 2022-11-07 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment hearing-fee municipal-law notice-of-violation property-rights property-seizure statutory-fines Whether the City of Lewiston, Maine, in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of Am…
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 PETITIONER REQUESTED A HEARING REGARDING SEIZURE AND FORFEITURE NOV, 21,2021 .PETITIONER SENT THE REQUIRED DOCUMENTS TO THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND ONE …
21-8071 Brala Beverly v. Riverside County Public Administrator, et al. California 2022-06-07 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial probate-court property-seizure seventh-amendment standing Did the California Riverside County Superior Court and Fourth Appellate District Division Two in California violate the seventh amendment of the U.S. …
21-7502 William Dallas Elmore v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-among-courts constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement personal-property property-seizure seizure unreasonable-search Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit an unreasonable and ongoing seizure of personal property?
21-7319 Abraham A. Augustin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP ancillary-jurisdiction civil-action criminal-investigation due-process equity federal-court property-seizure return-of-property rule-41(g) rule-41g I. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES INDICTMENT OF A DEFENDANT WHO'S PROPERTY WAS SEIZED BY THE STATE AND FBI DURING THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION OF A CASE PROS…
21-898 Blake Conyers, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment inventory-search municipal-policy property-rights property-seizure May a municipality, consistent with the Fourth and Fifth Amendments and pursuant to an explicit policy, destroy or sell property seized during the inv…
21-5384 William A. Masters v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process executive-taking fourteenth-amendment property-rights property-seizure standing state-remedies takings A. Must a Citizen exhaust his State's remedies before filing in the Federal Court for a decision upon a Constitutional issue? B. When a State makes a…
20-7771 Anthony J. Bator v. David Nilsson, et al. California 2021-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process legal-jurisdiction property-rights property-seizure siskiyou-county supreme-court-rulings takings The petitioner was wrongfully convicted of multiple felonies in a highly unfair trial by a group pf bureaucrats that work in the legal community of Si…
20-7560 Hakim Jakuin Morris v. Jocelyn B. Cate, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law due-process equal-protection property-rights property-seizure standing strict-scrutiny Why was I denied Substantive & Procedural Due process to challenge the validity of the alleged claims made by DMV, DSS and court officials? Why was pr…
20-7027 Susanne Stephanie Nikola Kynast v. Florida Florida 2021-02-03 Denied IFP civil-rights custodia-legis due-process evidence evidence-custodian motion-to-suppress nolle-prosequi property property-seizure search-and-seizure writ-of-mandamus Is Petitioner entitled to the return of property taken as evidence without a warrant and held in custodia legis subsequent to a motion to suppress in …
20-460 Richard E. Boggs v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment administrative-determination due-process fifth-amendment irs property-seizure tax-liability withholding-certificate 1) Did the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) deprive the petitioner of his Constitutional Fifth Amendment right to due process when it failed to offer a …
20-5690 Darrick Michael Loff v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution probable-cause property-seizure search-and-seizure warrantless-search I. biri prior 1-e rinoad-rle.aci orket.oe earmi:SSIOnt enfed- or aufliori2e. sere 6Pappe lam iszaviAdre_s -froperty ? a uo...c ;1-- /e,3cci-Por -L. cu…
20-151 Joe Blessett v. Beverly Ann Garcia Fifth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-law due-process federal-contract federal-court-jurisdiction homestead-exemption property-seizure standing title-iv-d 1. Has the Court decision denied Blessett 's U.S. Constitution protected right not to contract into Title IV-D services? 2. Did the 5th Appellate Cou…
20-5260 In Re Kenton G. Findlay 2020-08-05 Denied IFP 11-usc-362 14th-amendment 5th-amendment bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay constitutional-violation court-jurisdiction due-process foreclosure property-seizure Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida ("the Third DCA") violated the due process protection of the 5th a…
19-8277 Abraham A. Augustin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP ancillary-jurisdiction bivens-action civil-procedure constructive-possession criminal-investigation criminal-procedure fed-r-crim-p-16 fed-r-crim-p-41 jurisdiction property-seizure 1. Whether the district court had ancillary jurisdiction over property seized during the criminal investigation of an offense prosecuted in said dis…
19-7836 Tajuddin Salahuddin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute property property-rights property-seizure restitution restitution-lien seizure third-party third-party-rights 1) When the United States of America seizes innocent third-party property and cash; applies 21 U.S.C 853 to forfeit the property but applies a separat…
19-1021 Micah Jessop, et al. v. City of Fresno, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct property-rights property-seizure qualified-immunity search-and-seizure search-warrant seizure Whether it is clearly established that the Fourth Amendment prohibits police officers from stealing property listed in a search warrant.
19-494 David Zachary Morgan v. Washington Washington 2019-10-17 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment government-search plain-view-doctrine plain-view-exception probable-cause property-seizure search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether a government official who would like to seize someone's personal property, and has both probable cause and the time to obtain a warrant, must …
19-5365 Michael Joseph DeMarco, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied IFP color-of-state-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection government-misconduct prisoner-rights property-rights property-seizure retaliation witness-defense 1. Whether a prisoner has due process and equal protection under the Constitution when a guard deliberately, willfully and maliciously seizes a prison…
18-1466 County of Sonoma, California, et al. v. Rafael Mateos Sandoval, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment constitutional-rights continued-detention detention due-process fourth-amendment lawful-seizure monell-liability municipal-liability property-rights property-seizure public-safety section-1983 seizure vehicle-impound This petition presents three issues of first impression in this Court, all of which arise out of a judgment for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against…
18-1339 Mark Anthony Fornesa, et al. v. Fifth Third Mortgage Company Fifth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response Waived ' 'appeals' ' 'bankruptcy-law" ' 'civil-rights" ' 'constitutional-law" ' 'foreclosure" ' 'fraud" automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay constitutional-rights constitutional-validity constitutional-violation damages debtor-rights eviction foreclosure foreclosure-fraud fraud-allegation mortgage-dispute mortgage-law property-seizure Under Federal law, 11 U.S.C. § 362(a), do Fifth Third Mortgage company and Fifth Third Bank ("Fifth Third") have a right to seize a property from debt…
18-8478 Sheila Halousek v. Yuba County Animal Care Services California 2019-03-20 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process notice-requirement privacy property-rights property-seizure redress seizure With regard to the violation of Petitioner's rights to receive advance notice for due process, prior to the Respondents' seizure of private property: …
18-7615 Michael Alexander Bacon v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split criminal-justice-process criminal-procedure evidentiary-inquiry fact-finding factual-dispute federal-rule-41 federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(g) government-possession post-conviction-motion property-return property-seizure rule-41g seized-property Courts widely recognize the general rule that seized property, other than contraband, should be returned to its rightful owner once criminal proceedin…
18-5311 Jack Reid v. United States Second Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure drug-forfeiture drug-offenses due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines property-rights property-seizure sentencing standing substantial-connection Under 21 U.S.C. §853 (a)(2), a person convicted of violating a federal drug law must forfeit to the government "any of the person's property used, or …