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Supreme Court· 6/10/1996

Degen v. United States

Citations

  • 517 U.S. 820
  • 116 S. Ct. 1777
  • 135 L. Ed. 2d 102
  • 1996 U.S. LEXIS 3719

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that a court in a civil forfeiture suit is not allowed to enter judgment against a claimant merely because he is a fugitive from a related criminal prosecution
  • holding that a district court could not apply the doctrine to refuse a criminal fugitive’s answer in a related civil forfeiture case
  • holding that a summary civil forfeiture, approved without any hearing for the defendant under the fugitive disentitlement doctrine, violates a defendant's due process rights
  • holding that a district court could not apply the doctrine to refuse a criminal fugitive’s answer in a related civil forfeiture case
  • holding that the doctrine cannot be used to enter summary judgment in favor of the government in a civil forfeiture case
  • holding that defendant's flight from criminal prosecution did not justify disentitlement in related civil proceeding absent any impact on the course of such proceeding or the enforceability of any judgment therein

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Judges: Kennedy

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