Civil Forfeiture
Private Property

Eric Andre v. Clayton County

Brief Details

Author
Dan Alban
Senior Attorney
Date Filed
01/19/2024
Current Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

In a case involving warrantless seizures of air travelers on jetways at the Atlanta airport, IJ asked that the district court ruling be overturned because it failed to apply an appropriate Fourth Amendment analysis that accounts for the totality of the circumstances, including law enforcement’s weighty financial incentives in seizures of cash for civil forfeiture and all aspects of a post 9/11 airport security environment.