Legal Opinion
Andre Lopez Polanco v. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 15, 1998No. 502, Docket 96-2905PublishedCited by 112 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JACOBS, Circuit Judge:
The pro se complaint alleges that on April 4,1990, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) seized $6,920 in United States currency from plaintiff-appellant Andre Lopez Polanco, and that the government violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment by failing to notify Polanco that it intended to forfeit the property. The United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Scullin, J.) construed the complaint as a claim for the return of forfeited property under Bivens v. Six Unknown. Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403…
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