Legal Opinion
United States v. One Hundred Sixty-Five Thousand Five Hundred Eighty Dollars ($165,580) in U.S. Currency
District Court, D. Maine
Decided February 21, 2007No. CV-06-29-B-WPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER ON GOVERNMENT’S MOTION TO DISMISS VERIFIED STATEMENTS OF INTEREST
WOODCOCK, District Judge.
On February 4, 2005, two railroad employees happened upon a black duffel bag in the bushes at the side of the tracks, opened it, and discovered $165,580.00 in cash. Having turned the money over to the United States Government, they would like it back, citing common law and the Maine statutory modification of the ancient rule “finders, keepers.” The United States has a different idea. It contends that under federal statute, the money must be forfeited to the United States Government, because the…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Warth v. SeldinSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- The Boston Five Cents Savings Bank v. Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1985
- United States v. $250,000 in United States Currency, (Two Cases) Appeal of Amador Rodriguez-Ramos (Two Cases)Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1987
- United States v. $38,570 U.S. Currency, Francisco Flores, Jr., Claimant-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1992
- United States v. One Lincoln Navigator 1998, Freddie Bearden Wanda Breedlove Andrews, Claimants-AppellantsCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2003
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