United States Second Circuit

28 U.S.C. section 2461(c), enacted as part of the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act, does not authorize pretrial restraint of forfeitable assets.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/17/2005
• Published 08/17/2005

Judges

• WINTER, Circuit Judge., Before:  FEINBERG, WINTER, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steven F. Molo (Tai H. Park, Wendy E. Ackerman, on the brief), Shearman & Sterling, New York, New York, for Movant-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Varuni Nelson, Assistant United States Attorney (Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Richard Weber and Richard T. Lunger, Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), Central Islip, New York, for Appellee.