Rufty v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the jurisdiction of district courts is curtailed once an administrative forfeiture proceeding is begun
• holding that the district court lacked jurisdiction to consider a civil complaint seeking return of funds after finalized administrative forfeiture proceedings where the petitioners were never charged with any criminal offense
• listing circuit court cases which have acknowledged the availability of equitable jurisdiction in the context of Rule 41(e) motions
• district court lacked jurisdiction to consider plaintiff's constitutional challenges to forfeiture once plaintiff elected not to post the required bond and contest the forfeiture
• “California law generally defines a 5 bailment as the delivery of a thing in trust for a purpose upon an implied or express contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).