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Civil Forfeiture
Nationwide Class Action Takes Aim at FBI’s “Take Now, Explain Never” Forfeitures
IJ client Linda Martin has been stuck in FBI administrative forfeiture for two years. She inadvertently got caught up in the FBI’s raid on U.S. Private Vaults in March 2021, when—in direct violation of a warrant—the agency seized more than $85 million from customers’ safe deposit boxes. One of the boxes at U.S. Private Vaults contained the $40,200 Linda and her husband had saved for a down payment on a family home. The FBI won't tell her why it took her money, so she's fighting back with IJ in a new class action lawsuit.
IJ Sues USDA and FDA to Challenge Food Label Censorship
The First Amendment does not allow the government to decide which facts consumers are allowed to know. Yet the federal government is preventing tens of millions of Americans with sensitive stomachs from receiving the information that they desperately need to alleviate their symptoms.
Victory: City Grants Permit for Home Day Care Provider to Keep Business Open
Lakeway, Texas, granted a permit allowing Bianca King to keep her home day care business open, 16 months after she teamed up with IJ to file a lawsuit challenging the city’s home business law.
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