Sovereign News Co. v. United States

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• holding that even when the government can show that the seized property might be evidence of a potential criminal or regulatory violation, the government must be reasonably diligent in initiating the relevant criminal or regulatory investigation
• \A party may not by-pass the fact-finding process of the lower court and introduce new facts in its brief on appeal.\
• “we can conceive of no legitimate purpose for retaining these documents if the United States contem- plates no actual use for them. The government may not keep the copies purely for the sake of keeping them”

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