United States v. Ghassan Elashi

How courts have described this case

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• noting that special assessments resulting form garnishment orders issued pursuant to the MVRA “are collected in the same manner as criminal fines and are therefore treated in the same manner as federal tax liens”
• discussing two unpublished decisions in which the 5th Circuit applied state community property law to determine ownership interests in real property and a bank account not purporting to hold Social Security benefits
• “[A] restitution order [is] enforceable to the same extent as a tax lien.”
• “Once state-law property interests are defined, federal law controls the consequences.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).