Degen v. U.S., No. 95-173 (U.S. Supreme Court) (517 U.S. 820; 116 S.Ct. 1777) (June 10, 1996) (Justice Kennedy)
In this case the Court imposed limits on the use of the fugitive disentitlement doctrine, holding that a court may not strike a claimant's filings in a forfeiture suit and grant summary judgment against him because he is a fugitive.
Here the Court considered whether a United States District Court ...
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