Legal Opinion
Brown v. Government of the District of Columbia
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided August 12, 2019No. Civil Action No. 2013-0569Published
1Opinion of the Court
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA NICOYA HOYTE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Case No. 13-cv-569 (CRC) DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION In 2015, Mayor Muriel Bowser signed a bill reforming the District of Columbia’s civil asset forfeiture regime. The new law was designed to better protect property owners and included a variety of procedural and substantive safeguards to achieve that goal. This case, filed in 2013, is about the old law. Plaintiffs are a group of individuals whose property was seized and held for potential forfeiture under the prior regime.…
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