Wood v. Hughes

How courts have described this case

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• punitive or quasi-criminal nature of civil forfeitures causes them to fall under the police power
• “Court of Federal Claims has rejected the notion that the seizure and administrative forfeiture of money, pursuant to federal seizure and forfeiture statutes, is a compensable fifth amendment taking”
• “[T]he Court of Federal Claims has rejected the notion that the seizure and administrative forfeiture of money, pursuant to federal seizure and forfeiture statutes, is a compen-sable fifth amendment taking.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).