Legal Opinion

Louis Sager Hunsucker, Jr. v. Robert L. Phinney, District Director of Internal Revenue

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided August 29, 1974No. 71-2580PublishedCited by 113 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Hunsucker, against whom no civil or criminal proceeding was *31pending, sued seeking to prohibit the use against him in any action, civil or criminal, of documentary evidence that he claims had been illegally seized. More specifically he sought pursuant to the federal declaratory judgment statute, 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201-2202, a declaration that the material was illegally seized, and, pursuant to Rule 41(e), F.R.Crim.P.,1 return of the seized property and an order prohibiting its use as evidence against him. His suit was dismissed with prejudice, and he appeals.

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2Cases cited46 opinions

  1. Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of NarcoticsSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  2. Marchetti v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  3. Enochs v. Williams Packing & Navigation Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1962
  4. Grosso v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  5. Go-Bart Importing Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931

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3Cited by113 opinions

  1. G. M. Leasing Corp. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  2. United States v. James Leroy MartinsonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1987
  3. Joseph W. Richey and Wife, Blanche Richey v. Jack E. SmithCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
  4. Sovereign News Co. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1983
  5. Lewis E. Jones v. Clifford Alexander, Secretary of the ArmyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1980

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