Sentences with phrase «with civil forfeiture»

Unlike criminal forfeiture, with civil forfeiture a property owner need not be found guilty of a...

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«As Mikhail grew increasingly frustrated and angry, he began threatening the travelers with civil and criminal sanctions, including forfeiture of their Aeroflot tickets if they refused to accept that they were «Indians» who had to return «back to India,»» the complaint says.

All the Orange County legislators were provided with documentation of factual cases of civil forfeiture abuse; law enforcement agencies and local municipalities using the proceeds of forfeiture properties, cash and cars to balance their budgets; articles from conservative think tanks like The Heritage Foundation against this law and public comments from citizens, attorneys and former police officers expressing their view against this law.

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.

The firm recently acted in matters relating to confiscation proceedings, cash seizure, forfeiture, restraint orders, property freezing orders and civil recovery orders under the Proceeds of Crime Act and tipping off offences in accordance with National Criminal Intelligence Service «NCIS».

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.

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.

Six years later the B.C. Director of Civil Forfeiture commenced a civil action under the B.C. Civil Forfeiture Act, seeking forfeiture of a clubhouse and other property associated with the Civil Forfeiture commenced a civil action under the B.C. Civil Forfeiture Act, seeking forfeiture of a clubhouse and other property associated with the civil action under the B.C. Civil Forfeiture Act, seeking forfeiture of a clubhouse and other property associated with the Civil Forfeiture Act, seeking forfeiture of a clubhouse and other property associated with the club.

With respect to civil forfeiture, civil courts, now the functional delegates of criminal adjudication, determine whether the property at issue is the proceeds of crime, on reduced standards of proof.

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.