Private Property

Longtime readers of Liberty & Law know the fight to end civil forfeiture requires both persistence and creativity. In Philadelphia, for instance, IJ launched our first class action lawsuit to shut down the city’s massive forfeiture machine. And our groundbreaking studies, including our latest report exposing the Department of Homeland Security’s “jetway robbery,” show how civil forfeiture has become a multibillion-dollar threat to innocent Americans. Now, IJ is stepping into an ongoing forfeiture lawsuit to ask the South Carolina Supreme Court to end this abusive practice in the state once and for all.