Sentences with phrase «for civil forfeiture»

Meanwhile, Ulbricht filed claim for civil forfeiture action saying that he owned his 144,000 Bitcoin fair and square.

A circuit solicitor may employ outside counsel, in his discretion, without approval of the Attorney General, for civil forfeiture proceedings arising from criminal activity or from estreatment of bail bonds.

The county legislature has passed a new law that provides for civil forfeiture in misdemeanor drug cases.

Not exact matches

The civil forfeiture will be garnished up to 20 % of gross income for any paychecks Gallagher earns after he is released from prison.

Schneiderman's campaign today will release his second TV ad, which has a dual focus — his crime - fighting efforts, and his program to use cash from civil forfeiture funds to help purchase bulletproof vests for cops around the state.

Also, «for those defendants previously convicted and who have failed to satisfy the financial obligations imposed at sentencing, we will consider federal civil forfeiture actions against their pensions to satisfy criminal judgments,» the prosecutor said.

Sunday retail alcohol sales, workforce development, fighting opioids, reforming civil forfeiture laws and increasing funding for schools are all part of the the Indiana Senate Republican legislative agenda for 2018.

An original experiment finds that civil forfeiture laws create a strong temptation for law enforcement to seize property to pad their own budgets.

Civil forfeiture laws pose some of the greatest threats to property rights in the nation today, too often making it easy and lucrative for law enforcement to take and keep property — regardless of the owner's guilt or innocence.

It enables — indeed, encourages — state and local police and prosecutors to circumvent the civil forfeiture laws of their states for financial gain.

The $ 426,500 penalty — which was the amount of cash FESA and Families for Excellent Schools had on hand as of August 21 — represents the largest civil forfeiture negotiated by the OCPF in the agency's 44 - year history.

The Office of Campaign and Political Finance settlement with FESA required FESA to forfeit over $ 425,000 — the largest civil forfeiture in the agency's history, and prohibits them from fundraising, soliciting donations, or engaging in any election - related activity in Massachusetts for four years.

This resulted in a complete victory for the client, thereby securing the return of their cash and handing the prosecutor representing the government in the matter his first loss in a civil asset forfeiture case in decades.

A new report by the Canadian Constitution Foundation and Institute for Liberal Studies says the civil forfeiture laws are cash grabs for provincial governments, which have collected millions of dollars in assets as proceeds of crime.

Mr. McShane has defended public contractors in bid protest actions and construction defect litigation, pursued commercial code and contract remedies for financial institutions and corporations, prosecuted and defended legal malpractice cases and protected lenders» interests in bankruptcy estates and civil forfeiture cases.

Despite the pardon, the item may also be subject to civil forfeiture (for example if the item is proceeds from a drug sale).

Under Ontario's civil forfeiture law, CRIA can, with a court order, take possession of property that is determined to be a proceed of unlawful activity, search for people who have suffered losses as a result of that activity and use the property to compensate them.

The prevalence of shorter, simpler emails is also consistent with my recent legal experience as a litigation associate in a large law firm before starting to teach legal writing full - time — an experience I have drawn on in trying to design realistic assignments.59 The emails I wrote often dealt with relatively straightforward substantive matters, procedural questions surrounding litigation, or some combination of the two, such as the steps for having an appellate court relinquish jurisdiction to correct a scrivener's error in a lower - court judgment or the timeline for responding to an in rem civil forfeiture action.

The deadline for filing a claim in an in rem civil forfeiture proceeding is not «probably» one date or another.

I also wouldn't rule out the possibility that some court might construe the safe harbors from discipline for unauthorized practice in Rule 5.5 as informing (or, despite the Rules» plain terms, even defining) licensure requirements, and thus helping to define safe harbors from any sanction for unauthorized practice, including the civil fee forfeiture that often accompanies a determination of unauthorized practice, or the misdemeanor criminal liability to which my post refers.

Also, out of the $ 500 million, $ 150 million is forfeiture and the criminal fine, with the rest, save for Thankur's whistleblower settlement, to go to the civil claims submitted by the US government and all the states.

Below you will find an excerpt on civil forfeiture and peace bonds from the book as well as a trailer for the book and a video blawg...

This statement of Sullivan J was made by him in the judgment five paragraphs before he stated explicitly that one should not confuse and read across the provisions of POCA 2002 relating to civil recovery proceedings with those provisions that relate to summary proceedings for cash forfeiture and detention.

Civil asset forfeiture — Senate lawmakers are gearing up for an early 2000 introduction of an NAR - supported bill to protect owners against unfair property seizure.

The biggest risk for real estate is federal civil asset forfeiture laws.