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727 F.Supp.2d 876 (2010) UNITED STATES, Plaintiff, v. REAL PROPERTY LOCATED AT 475 MARTIN LANE, BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA, et al., Defendants. Nos. CV 04-2788 ABC (PLAx), CV 04-3386 ABC (PLAx), CV 05-3910 ABC (PLAx). United States District Court, C.D. California. July 19, 2010. *878 John E. Lee, AUSA-Office of US Attorney, Los An

MEMORANDUM * The government, DAS Corporation (“DAS”), and Optional Capital, Inc. (“Optional”) appeal the district court’s dismissal of the government’s civil forfeiture complaint and grant of summary judgment in favor of Christopher Kim, Bora Lee, Erica Kim, Se Young Kim, Young Ai Kim, Alexandria Investment, LLC, and First Stephora Avenue, Inc. (“the Kim Claimants”).1 The Kim C

545 F.3d 1134 (2008) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, and Christopher Kim, a/k/a Kyung Joon Kim, KJ Kim and Chris Kim; Bora Lee; Se Young Kim; Young Ai Kim; Erica M. Kim; First Stephora Avenue, Inc.; Alexandria Investment, LLC, Claimants-Appellees, Optional Capital, Inc., a/k/a Optional Ventures, Claimant-Appellant, v. REAL PROPERTY LOCATED AT 475 MARTIN LANE, BEVERLY HILLS CALIFORNIA, Real Property located at, a/k/a Seal A; 924 North

ORDER The Opinion filed August 13, 2015 [797 F.3d 696], is amended as follows: Slip opinion page 19 [797 F.3d at 706]: after add the following as a footnote: < Jurisdiction over claims against the United States is generally given to the Court of Federal Claims. See 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346, 1491(a). Nevertheless, alth

OPINION N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judge: Christopher Kim and members of his family defeated the Government’s attempts to forfeit property seized in connection with a criminal investigation. Thereafter, Kim received several significant awards of attorney’s fees. Eric Honig, Kim’s lawyer, asked the district court that he be paid those fees directly, pursuant to

FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AKA No. 12-56922 Seal A, Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. 2:04-cv-02788- v. ABC-PLA CHRISTOPHER KIM, AKA Chris Kim, AKA KJ Kim, AKA Kyung Joon Kim; BORA LEE; OPTIONAL CAPITAL, INC., AKA Optional Ventures; FIRST STEPHORA AVENUE, INC.; ERICA M. KIM; ALEXANDRIA INVESTMENT, LLC;

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) V. ) Civil Action No. 04-0798 (PLF) ) ALL ASSETS HELD AT BANK JULIUS) Baer & Company, Ltd., Guernsey ) Branch, account number 121128, in the ) Name of Pavlo Lazarenko et al., ) ) Defendants In Rem. ) ) OPINION This matter is before the Court on the motion of the United States for summary judgment to strike the claim of Pavel Lazarenko, also known as Pavlo Lazarenko, to the defendan

OPINION HORN, Judge. At issue is the scope of the rights of way in these multifaceted takings cases, involving numerous plaintiffs, multiple statutory land grants, different deed types, a prescriptive easement and subsequent conveyances over a more than one hundred year time period for property located along the eastern shore of Lake Sammamish in King County, Washington. The plaintiffs in these consolidated<

807 F.Supp.2d 1154 (2011) UNITED STATES of America, v. Juan Manuel ACOSTA, Martin Arreola-Romero, Angel Luis Ayala, Otha Barnes, Gerald Edward Durrance, Martina Casas Flores, Ramiro Hernandez-Duque, Jorge Lucatero-Torres, Belisario Gil Mendoza, Juan Manuel Mendoza, Raphael Pedroza Perez, Obiel Pineda-Pardo, Alfonso Rios, Jr., Jose Cesar Almeida, Jorge Alejandro Anaya-Medina, Luis Manuel Haces-Delgado, Alejandro De La Cruz-Plancarte, Javier De La

ORDER Re: PENDING MOTION Fernando M. Olguin, United States District Judge Having reviewed and considered all the briefing filed with respect to defendant’s Motion for Partial Summary Judgment (“Motion”) (Dkt. 92), the court concludes that oral argument is not necessary to resolve the Motion, see Fed. R. Civ. P. 78; Local Rule 7-15; Willis v. Pac. Mar. Ass’n, 244 F.3d 675, 684 n. 2 (9th Cir. 2001), and

FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 22-16499 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 3:20-cv-00158- v. MMD-CSD $1,106,775.00 IN UNITED STATES CURRENCY, OPINION Defendant-Appellant, OAK PORCELLI, Claimant-Appellant, a

625 F.Supp.2d 949 (2009) In re RETURN OF SEIZED PROPERTY, Terri Jordan, et al., Movants/Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent/Defendant. United States of America, Plaintiff, v. Assorted Firearms, Motorcycles, et al., Defendants. Terri Jordan, et al., Claimants. Nos. 2:09-cv-459-FMC, 2:09-cv-1887-FMC-JCx. United States District Court, C.D. California.

ORDER CHARLES R. PYLE, United States Magistrate Judge. The Government filed this forfeiture action pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 881(a)(6). *1173(Complaint (Doc. 1)). The Claimants in this case, Dr. Robert Osborne and his wife Debra Osborne seek dismissal pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim, arguing that the Complaint is un

629 F.Supp.2d 1264 (2009) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. 40 ACRES OF REAL PROPERTY, MORE OR LESS, etc., Defendant. Civil Action No. 08-0117-WS-C. United States District Court, S.D. Alabama, Southern Division. June 26, 2009. *1266 Alex F. Lankford, IV, U.S. Attorney's Office, Mobile, AL, for Plaintiff. AME

FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 19-55128 Plaintiff, D.C. Nos. and 2:04-cv-02788- ABC-PLA OPTIONAL CAPITAL, INC., AKA 2:04-cv-03386- Optional Ventures, ABC-PLA Claimant-Appellant,

FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT OPTIONAL CAPITAL, INC., AKA No. 22-55832 Optional Ventures, Claimant-Appellant, D.C. Nos. 2:04-cv-02788- and PA-PLA 2:04-cv-03386- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PA-PLA 2:05-cv-03910- Pl

FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 19-55128 Plaintiff, D.C. Nos. and 2:04-cv-02788- ABC-PLA OPTIONAL CAPITAL, INC., AKA 2:04-cv-03386- Optional Ventures, ABC-PLA

ORDER RE PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO REMAND Re: Dkt. No. 17 Donna M. Ryu, United States Magistrate Judge Pending- before this court is Plaintiff SWC, Inc. (“SWC”)’s motion to remand. [Docket No. 17]. The court held a hearing on February 9, 2017. For the following reasons, the court grants SWC’s motion to remand, and denies Defendant Elite Promo, Inc.’s (“Elite Promo”) pending motion to d

471 B.R. 570 (2012) In re Bill Martin PARKER, Debtor. Albert P. Wilcox, Appellant, v. Bill Martin Parker, Appellee. BAP No. NC-11-1566-JuKiJo. Bankruptcy No. 09-43245. Adversary No. 09-04301. United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted May 17, 2012. Decided May 29, 2012. *572<

ORDER ON MOTION TO COMPEL RETURN OF PRIVILEGED MATERIALS TIMOTHY M. BURGESS, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE I. INTRODUCTION This matter is before the Court on Defendants Secretary of Commerce, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (“NOAA”), and the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (“NMFS”) Motion to Lodge a Revised Administrative Record and to Compel the Return of Privi