FEAR Foundation
Journal
Vol. 1 No. 1
Fall 2003
posted on FEAR website 4/10/2004
In the fall of 2003, FEAR introduced a
new publication, the FEAR Foundation Journal. Edited by Judy
Osburn, who co-authored FEAR's Asset Forfeiture Defense Manual, and
edited the FEAR Chronicles newsletter for several years, this new
publication is a cross between a newsletter and a scholarly law
journal. Like the FEAR Chronicles newsletter, it reports
forfeiture news around the globe. This publication stretches to
20 pages and includes in-depth analysis of recent forfeiture
decisions.
This first issue has several articles about recent landmark decisions
in the courts -- many of them ruling in our favor on Constitutional
grounds. With our chances of legislative forfeiture reform
diminished by the current political climate, it is so uplifting to see
the courts take the lead in forfeiture reform!
This is a very important publication, but unfortunately FEAR does not
yet have the financial means to publish a second issue. If you
think this publication is important enough to continue publishing,
please make a contribution to FEAR, or write us if you're willing to
subscribe to future publications of this journal. Unless we have
a critical mass of subscribers, we can't afford to continue publishing
it.
The first issue of the Journal is now posted here on the
FEAR website, for viewing free of charge. Although these
materials are copyrighted by FEAR, we permit reprinting for
distribution without charge if the separate article or PDF format
newsletter is reprinted in its entirety. We also permit
republication of individual articles so long as the entire article is
included without editing, and
attribution is given to FEAR Foundation Journal, Forfeiture Endangers
American Rights Foundation, 20 Sunnyside Suite A-419, Mill Valley, CA
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Or bowse the individual articles in html format below.
Inside Volume 1 Issue No. 1:
Krimstock v. Kelly - Second
Circuit holds NYC forfeiture statute unconstitutional for failing to
provide a prompt post-seizure probable cause hearing
Nassau County Judge Invites Challenges
Pursuant to Krimstock
New Jersey 1990 Ford Thunderbird
- FEAR Board member Scott Bullock's groundbreaking victory, in which
the trial court held it violates Due Process for forfeiture prosecutors
to profit from their forfeitures
11th Circuit reverses $242,484 civil
forfeiture, draws probable
cause line - Drug dog alerts are not enough, standing alone, to
forfeit cash seized at highway forfeiture traps, the conservative 11th
Circuit holds -- applying the pre-CAFRA burdens of proof, where
all the government had to show was a mere probable cause!
Forfeiture lobby fails to thwart popular Utah
reform law
Government seizes Internet site, assumes
domain name
Paypal meets Patriot Act
College dorm forfeiture?
New Zealand’s "jackbooted firemen"
confiscate books
FISA: Secret tribunal expands surveillance
powers
New federal law prohibits gatherings
Police seize vehicle due to pro-life message
Asset Forfeiture Fund slips
US forfeiture goes offshore
Must government return seized property it
fails to forfeit? - consolidated cases of Clymore and Aguirre
pending Tenth Circuit will decide that issue
Misappropriated plunder
What happened to GA’s $12 million in forfeited assets?
USA Patriot Act expands
forfeitures
FEAR’s
Asset
Forfeiture Defense Manual