Legal Opinion
United States v. Route 1, Box 111, Firetower Road
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 7, 1991No. 89-7194PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Circuit Judge:
This ease concerns first, whether the bond accompanying a claimant’s complaint as required by the judicial forfeiture procedures of 21 C.F.R. § 1316.76 (1988) and 19 C.F.R. § 162.47 (1988) is a cost bond or a penal bond; and second, whether the government may obtain post judgment relief under F.R.C.P. 60(b) when it failed to request costs as part of the forfeiture judgment. Because we find that the relevant regulations and governing statutes (except in extraordinary circumstances) require only a cost bond and that the district court applied the wrong rule in granting post…
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