United States Ninth Circuit

In a civil forfeiture case, the attorneys for the property owners must file their property claims as soon as the claims are perfected and not after the government withdraws a senior lis pendens claim on the property.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/05/2001
• Decided 09/05/2001
• Published 09/05/2001

Judges

• D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  D.W. NELSON,FERNANDEZ and RYMER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark A. Borenstein, Shapiro, Borenstein & Dupont, Santa Monica, California, for the claimants-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• John E. Lee, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.