“...attorneys from the Institute for Justice argued that the FBI “broke open hundreds of safe deposit boxes, and then it tried to civilly forfeit everything in those boxes worth over $5,000” after the raid without any probable cause.
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The appeal comes after a lower court last year sided with the FBI.”
This happened 3.5 years ago and people are still having to sue, and pay lawyers, to try to get their property back.
Where is this “Constitution” I hear so much about on this site ?
Time to go back to burying your gold and silver. It’s that stage of the cycle.
The initial Fourth Amendment case was handled by R. Gary Klausner, Smirking Chimp [Dubya] stooge for the Central District of California.
The appeal of the stooge's "opinion" rubber-stamping the fibbie piracy went to the Ninth Circuit's Milan B. Smith [Dubya judge], Carlos T. Bea [Dubya judge] and Trump judge Lawrence VanDyke.
These three gave senior moment stooge Klausner a unanimous nuclear wedgie.
PAUL SNITKO, ET AL V. USA, ET AL 22-56050
https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2024/01/23/22-56050.pdf