United States v. U.S. Currency, $81,000.00

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• using “a two step process” in a federal forfeiture case because “[s]tate law determines [a claimant’s] ownership interest . . . but then federal law determines the effect of his ownership interest on his right to bring a claim”
• the district court sifted through evidence, including grand jury testimony of the claimant, to address whether he had an ownership interest for standing purposes
• “Courts generally do not deny standing to a claimant who is either the colorable owner of the res or who has any colorable possessory interest in it.”
• “state law determines [the claimant’s] ownership interest in the joint account, but then federal law determines the effect of his ownership interest on his right to bring a claim
• guoting Conley v. Gibson, 355 U.S. 41, 45-46 (1957)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).