United States Tenth Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's federal civil rights actions challenging a law enforcement seizure and subsequent forfeiture of property on statute of limitations grounds affirmed in part and reversed in part where: 1) causes of action regarding the initial seizure of his property accrued at the time of the seizure, and thus were time-barred; but 2) causes of action challenging the forfeiture process accrued at the time the forfeiture proceedings were held -- not when law enforcement seized his property -- and thus, were timely.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/26/2006
• Published 10/27/2006

Judges

• CASSELL, District Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Circuit Judge, EBEL, Circuit Judge, and CASSELL, District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Submitted on the briefs:   Robert J. Haupt and Rachel L. Mor, Oklahoma City, OK, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Elizabeth R. Sharrock, Assistant Attorney General, Oklahoma City, OK, and Betty Outhier Williams, Gage & Williams Law Firm, Muskogee, OK, for Defendants-Appellees.