United States v. D.K.G. Appaloosas, Inc.

RANDALL, Circuit Judge:

The government appeals the district court’s entry of judgment against the government in its suit to forfeit claimant’s horse ranch in East Texas, and claimant cross-appeals the district court’s allocation of the costs of operating the ranch while the forfeiture litigation was pending. In a consolidated appeal, claimant also challenges, as a violation of the ex post facto clause of the United States Constitution, the district court’s judgment forfeiting to the government certain gold bars owned by claimant. Finally, claimant attacks the district court’s refusal to give a…