Gerald Booker v. The City of Saint Paul

MELLOY, Circuit Judge.

The City of St. Paul (“the City”) seized Gerald Booker’s vehicle following Booker’s fourth arrest for driving while impaired. If Booker wished to contest the seizure, Minnesota Stat. § 169A.63, Subdiv. 8(b) required Booker to file a challenge to the forfeiture within thirty days. Booker waited more than seven months to challenge the forfeiture. When he did not succeed in retrieving his vehicle, Booker filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, alleging that the state forfeiture proceeding violated his due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and that the…