Legal Opinion
Jorge Sarit and Dennie Espaillat v. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 23, 1993No. 92-2001PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge.
This case involves plaintiffs-appellants’ attempts to recover $41,448.00 in U.S. currency, which was seized by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) and has now been forfeited. In their civil action under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 against the DEA and its agents, plaintiffs appeal two rulings by the district court. First, plaintiffs challenge the court’s grant of partial summary judgment for the defendants upon its finding that plaintiffs had received constitutionally adequate notice of the administrative forfeiture proceeding. Second, plaintiffs…
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