United States v. One 1985 Mercedes, and Kenneth Robert Glenn, Intervenor-Appellant

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• holding that vindictive prosecution claims in civil forfeiture proceeding may raise due process questions
• holding that, 13 to prevail on a claim that an agency “impermissibly departed from its own policy,” an 14 aggrieved party must show inter alia that the policy at issue prescribed a substantive rule, 15 and not an interpretive, organizational, or procedural rule
• stating that a court may judge agency action to be arbitrary and capricious when the agency either did not follow its own policies or neglected to formulate necessary policies
• “Civil forfeiture actions constitute a hybrid procedure of mixed civil and criminal law elements.”

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