The U.S. Supreme Court recently weakened a criminal defendant's ability to challenge the Government's pretrial seizure of assets that a defendant has allocated for mounting a defense. In Kaley v. United States , [1] the Court eliminated a defendant's... Read More

Late last year, an Emerging Issue Analysis [ enhanced version available to lexis.com subscribers ] described the issues presented to the Supreme Court in Kaley v. United States [ enhanced version available to lexis.com subscribers ], an appeal that was... Read More

It is not uncommon for the defense of a white collar prosecution to require substantial legal fees. Nor is it unusual for government to seek to seize and forfeit assets held by the defendant in cases in which the prosecution claims that the defendant... Read More

French Importer Supplied Forged Mongolian Export Documents A complaint has been filed in federal court in the Eastern District of New York to forfeit the fossilized skull and vertebrae of an Alioramus dinosaur (the “Dinosaur Skull”)... Read More