Legal Opinion
Jose A. Fonseca v. W. Michael Blumenthal, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 21, 1980No. 526, Docket 79-6174PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Per curiam
Appellant, Jose A. Fonseca, commenced this action in the Eastern District of New York to recover a suitcase containing $250,-000 in United States currency. He alleged that the suitcase had been misdirected by an airline to JFK Airport in New York while Fonseca was traveling from Bogota, Colombia to Lima, Peru. The suitcase was seized by the United States Customs Service in New York.
While the action was pending, the Superintendent of Exchange Control of the Re public of Colombia requested that the suitcase and its contents be delivered to him for examination in connection with an investigation…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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