Legal Opinion
United States v. Property Identified as Lot Numbered 718
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided July 29, 1998No. Civil Action 96-2100-LFOPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
OBERDORFER, District Judge.
This case poses a novel legal question about the limits of the federal government’s power of civil forfeiture when waging its war on drugs. Claimant Kimberly Honesty contends that the United States violated her due process rights when, without notice or an adversarial hearing, it secured an in rem arrest warrant on her home and allegedly used the threat of eviction as leverage in settlement negotiations over its claim on a second parcel of property. The contours of the issue here are provided by the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. James Daniel…
2Cases cited34 opinions
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