United States Second Circuit

In case where defendant city sought to preclude plaintiff from participating in motor vehicle forfeiture proceedings, judgment that defendant both permit plaintiff to so participate and commence forfeiture actions within 25 days from the date that plaintiff makes a demand on the vehicle, and also granting deduction of 10% of proceeds of sale and permitting defendants to require a release from plaintiff, is affirmed over defendants' primary claim that plaintiff lacks a property interest in a seized vehicle.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/24/2007
• Published 09/24/2007

Judges

• JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Circuit Judge:, Before:  WALKER and HALL, Circuit Judges, and COTE, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Janet L. Zaleon, Assistant Corporation Counsel (Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, Kristen M. Helmers, Sheryl R. Neufeld, of counsel, on the brief), New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees., David L. Tillem and Kathleen Daly, Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker LLP, White Plains, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant.