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U.S. v. $191,910.00 IN U.S. CURRENCY

No. 92-15583.

16 F.3d 1051 (1994)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. $191,910.00 IN U.S. CURRENCY, Defendant. Bruce R. Morgan, Claimant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided February 18, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sean Connelly, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiff-appellant.

David M. Michael, Mill Valley, California, for the claimant-appellee.

Before: REINHARDT and LEAVY, Circuit Judges, and MERHIGE, District Judge.

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

This case involves the federal government's increasingly widespread use of civil forfeitures to achieve the goals of criminal law enforcement in what used to be called the "war on drugs."1 The government sought to forfeit $191,910.00 seized from claimant-appellee Bruce R. Morgan. The district court granted Morgan's motion for summary judgment on the ground that the government failed to establish probable cause...

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