The Nazis confiscated it from Poland during World War II, but it was returned to the family in 1946.
At the wedding this month of Jennifer Palmieri, a friend of Mrs. Edwards and a one-time senior adviser to the campaign, Mrs. Edwards spotted Jonathan Prince, the deputy campaign manager, using his BlackBerry on the dance floor, and confiscated it from him, participants said.
After charging them for a major repair to his car in 1972, his parents confiscated it from him and told him that they would not continue to financially support him in such a manner.
On that fateful day, among the panic-stricken mob at the Havana airport, his mother took off her jewelry and handed it to Jorge's tearful grandmother to prevent security guards from confiscating it.
The suit is a preemptive move to establish Cicco's ownership of the lunar dust, with the aim of preventing NASA from confiscating it due to the agency's position that "private persons cannot own lunar material," according to the filing.
Globovision, a rabidly anti-Chávez television news channel, claims that the defunct court was poised to order the government to return microwave-transmission equipment confiscated from it last month.
England's hotel for the World Cup in Brazil has had out-of-date food confiscated from it by Brazilian health and safety officials.
After years of complaints about abusive government conduct, Congress today completed legislation that would make it harder for the federal government to confiscate property from people before it actually brings charges in criminal cases.
A1 Revision of Property Seizures The House gave final Congressional approval to legislation that would make it harder for the federal government to confiscate property from people before it actually brought charges in criminal cases.
