American Civil Liberties of Missouri Foundation v. Lombardi

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating \forfeiture actions . . . are conducted as in rem civil proceedings\
• forfeiture statute construed to exempt innocent owners who use due care to prevent unlawful use of their property
• “[ultimately, forfeiture statutes are justifiable to the extent that they are a legitimate exercise of the police power”
• forfeiture statute construed to exempt innocent owners who use due care to prevent unlawful use of their property
• innocent “lessors or lienholders” exception was extended to include innocent owners
• collecting and reiterating these principles

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).