Legal Opinion

United States v. Finn Batato

Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Decided August 12, 2016No. 15-1360PublishedCited by 36 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Affirmed by published opinion. Chief Judge GREGORY wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge DUNCAN joined. Judge FLOYD wrote a dissenting opinion.

GREGORY, Chief Judge:

The claimants in this case appeal from the district court’s entry of default judgment for the government in a civil forfeiture action against funds deposited in the claimants’ names in banks in New Zealand and Hong Kong. Default judgment was entered after the government successfully moved to disentitle the claimants from defending their claims to the defendant property under the federal fugitive disen-titlement statute, 28…

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