United States v. One-Sixth Share of Bulger in All Present & Future Proceeds of Mass Millions Lottery Ticket No. M246233

How courts have described this case

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• addressing the claimants’ standing at the motion to intervene/motion to set aside a judgement phase
• classifying money judgment as “only a general in personam judgment [against a defendant], not a secured interest against any particular asset that he owned”
• “Standing in [civil forfeiture] cases has both constitutional and statutory aspects.”
• “Standing in [civil forfeiture] cases has both constitutional and statutory aspects.”
• “‘[T]he federal courts have consistently held that unsecured creditors do not have standing to challenge the civil forfeiture of their debtors' property.’”
• “Because civil forfeiture is an in rem proceeding, the property subject to forfeiture is the defendant. Thus, defenses against the forfeiture can be brought only by third parties, who must intervene.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).