Litigation
Jul. 2, 2005
Law Gives Asset-Forfeiture Defendants Fee-Fight Help
Focus Column - Litigation - By Eric Honig - Attorneys who venture for the first time into the complex world of federal civil asset forfeiture litigation often discover quickly that this practice specialty involves one of the most esoteric mixtures of law and procedure. These in rem civil proceedings are based on a legal fiction that the property is the offender, and thus are filed with titles such as United States of America v. One 1985 Mercedes Benz , 14 F.3d 465 (1994).
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