Legal Opinion
Degen v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 10, 1996No. 95-173PublishedCited by 414 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kennedy
In this case we consider whether a United States District Court may strike the filings of a claimant in a forfeiture suit and grant summary judgment against him for failing to appear in a related criminal prosecution. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held this to be a proper exercise of the District Court’s inherent authority. We reverse.
A federal grand jury in Nevada indicted Brian Degen for distributing marijuana, laundering money, and related crimes. On the same day in 1989 that it unsealed the indictment, the United States District Court for the District of Nevada also unsealed…
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