ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Introductions and FAQs > Asset Forfeiture
- The Looting of America: Civil Asset Forfeiture
Source: International Society for Individual Liberty
Author: Jarrett Wollstein
Country: United States
E-mail: isil@isil.org
- ISIL pamphlet on the horrors and legal/constitutional errors of civil asset forfeiture -- laws that enable police to confiscate your home, bank accounts and business without a trial.
- Forfeiture: Another one of the faces of tyranny
Source: FEAR
Author: Roy Timpe
State: PA, Country: United States
- An essay by Forfeiture Endangers American Rights' state coordinator for Pennsylvania. (1998)
- How to litigate the five most common types of civil forfeiture cases
Source: Asset Forfeiture Network
Country: United States
- Legal and tactical advice on challenging common forfeiture proceedings. (Note: This is a lead-in for a commercial forfeiture litigation package) (1996)
- Issues to consider in litigating a criminal forfeiture matter
Source: Asset Forfeiture Network
Country: United States
- Legal and tactical advice on challenging criminal asset seizures. (Note: This is a lead-in for a commercial forfeiture litigation package) (1996)
- No vacancy for drug dealers: Feds seize hotel
Source: Houston Chronicle
Country: United States
- Federal agents seized a Houston hotel, charging that its owners didn't do enough to stop drug sales on the premises. (2/17/98)
- Forfeiting justice
Source: Civil Liberties
Author: J.D. Tuccille
Country: United States
- There's hope that asset forfeiture, the legalized theft of private property with little due process, may finally be reined in. (7/25/99)
- Public policy: Civil asset forfeiture
Source: Drug Policy Foundation
Country: United States
- The Drug Policy Foundation stakes out a position opposed to the depredations on private property performed in the name of the War on Drugs. (1999)
- Trails end: A memorial to Donald Scott
Source: FEAR
Country: United States
- The chilling story of Donald Scott of Malibu, who was killed during a raid on his home which authorities admitted was inspired by a desire to seize the property.
- Forfeiture victim scrapbooks
Source: FEAR
Country: United States
- "These victim stories ... contain documentation from the actual court documents, etc. Victims are encouraged to submit their stories -- but only after consulting with their attorneys."
- Oversight of federal asset forfeiture: Its role in fighting crime
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Roger Pilon
Country: United States
- Roger Pilon, vice president for legal affairs at the Cato Institute and the director of Cato's Center for Constitutional Studies, testifies before a Senate subcommittee in favor of an asset forfeiture reform bill. (7/21/99)
- A License to Steal: The Forfeiture of Property
Source: The Cato Journal
Country: United States
- A review of Leonard Levy's "A License to Steal," which takes a scathing look at asset forfeiture laws. (1996)
- Court: Some forfeiture fines excessive
Source: USA Today
Country: United States
- In a first, the Supreme Court struck down a fine as unconstitutional, saying that "the federal government cannot always seize and keep all the money people try to take outside the United States without filing the proper reports." (1999)
- Court: No warrant needed for car seizure
Source: USA Today
Country: United States
- The Supreme Court ruled that "[p]olice do not need a warrant to seize someone's car from a public place under laws requiring forfeiture of property linked to crime." (5/17/99)
- Seizure disorder
Source: Reason
Author: Jacob Sullum
Country: United States
- The case of the Bajakajian family (which ended better than it could have) illustrates the bizarre world of asset forfeiture. (7/1/98)
- Rudy's car collection
Source: Reason
Author: Jacob Sullum
Country: United States
- Asset forfeiture has become so popular that New York City is grabbing the cars of accused drunk drivers. (3/3/99)
- Court news from FEAR
Source: Forfeiture Endangers American Rights (FEAR)
Country: United States
- Court decisions and news items concerning asset forfeiture from Forfeiture Endangers American Rights (FEAR)
- How to survive forfeiture
Source: Forfeiture Endangers American Rights (FEAR)
Author: Sunni Liston
Country: United States
- "Government has lost its ability to ever blindside me again. I no longer read the news and believe the written pages. I no longer assume the guilt of those I see arrested. I have learned to open my eyes and see a story other than the one that the government and the media want me to see."
- My property's been sezied
Source: Forfeiture Endangers American Rights
Country: United States
- "The police took my property. What do I do to get it back?" brochure (printable version available) from FEAR
- First thoughts on the new Money Laundering Act
Source: American Bar Association
Author: Roger Pilon
Country: United States
- ""[O]ne would be hard-pressed to defend one’s person without the financial means or the 'property' to do so. The hard truth is that in recent years many a defendant has been rendered defenseless by U.S. forfeiture law." (02/02)
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