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· 7/13/1989

Postscript Enterprises, Inc. v. Hon. George Peach, Circuit Attorney for St. Louis, Missouri Col. Robert Scheetz, City of St. Louis Police Department

Citations

  • 878 F.2d 1114
  • 1989 U.S. App. LEXIS 9988
  • 1989 WL 75915

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  • holding that civil forfeiture proceedings are quasi-criminal in nature and explaining that \[t]he state's interest in these forfeiture proceedings is likely to be as great as its interest in its criminal law proceedings.\
  • finding that Younger abstention applied when there were ongoing “quasi-criminal” forfeiture proceedings
  • “The state’s interest in . . . forfeiture proceedings is likely to be as great as its interest in its criminal law proceedings.”

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Judges: McMillian, Bowman, Henley

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