| 1. | American Forfeiture Law: Property Owners Meet the Prosecutor | | | A Policy Analysis from the Cato Institute that discusses the history of forfeiture and how it has enhanced the power of government over people and their property in ways that are difficult to reconcile with long-cherished constitutional rights.
www.cato.org |
| 2. | The Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act 1997 (Testimony) | | | Congressional testimony from Roger Pilon, Ph.D., J.D., Senior Fellow and Director Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute, before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States House of Representatives, June 11, 1997.
www.cato.org |
| 4. | Auction Action | | | Liberty Activists suggests that we bring the issue of civil asset forfeiture to public attention in a simple yet riveting manner; by protesting at the auctions where the seized property is being sold to the highest bidder
www.geocities.com |
| 5. | Drug loot fuels drug war | | | A series of articles on forfeiture by the Standard Times newspaper of SouthCoast, MA. Very balanced, providing views from both sides of this issue.
www.s-t.com |
| 6. | Steven L. Kessler | | | Online articles, from an attorney and author with expertise in RICO and forfeiture.
www.kessleronforfeiture.com |
| 7. | the Constitution | | | Includes information relating the prohibition of Bills of Attainder to asset forfeiture.
jimo9.freeservers.com |
| 11. | Executive Privateers | | | A Discussion on Why the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act Will Not Significantly Reform the Practice of Forfeiture
www.fear.org |
| 16. | Losing Ones Livelihood to the Grasp of Fiction | | | re in the United States written in 1996 by Robert Shaw. Provides an overview of laws and legal standards, forfeiture's origins and history, law enforcement relationships and abuses, and suggestions for reform.
www.qualitylegalcounsel.com |
| 17. | Z Magazine: Asset Forfeiture | | | Article by activist and writer Susan Meeker Lowry critical of the practice as applied in the 'war on drugs.'
www.zmag.org |
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