GONZALES v. RIVKIND

No. 86-3194.

858 F.2d 657 (1988)

Manuel GONZALES, Tommy Ramos, on Behalf of Themselves and all others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Perry A. RIVKIND, Robert Adams, and Alan Nelson, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

October 24, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Brown, Gen. Litigation and Legal Advice Section, Crim. Div., Thomas Hollenhorst, Asset Forfeiture Office, Crim. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellants.

Florida Rural Legal Services, Nora Leto, Bartow, Fla., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before ANDERSON and EDMONDSON, Circuit Judges, and ATKINS, Senior District Judge.


EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal the government challenges a district court judgment holding that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) deprived the plaintiff class members of due process (a) by failing to provide them with an immediate judicial hearing on probable cause after the vehicles of class members were seized for their alleged use in transporting illegal aliens and (b) by imposing payment of seizure-related costs on plaintiffs for release...

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