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Case Summary
United States v. Four Hundred Fifty Ancient Cuneiform Tablets (Hobby Lobby)
United States v. Four Hundred Fifty Ancient Cuneiform Tablets, No. 1:17-cv-03980 (E.D.N.Y. July 6, 2017).
Précis
This case involved the seizure by, and subsequent
forfeiture
Loss of property under compulsion of legal authority.
forfeiture to, the U.S. government of more than three thousand antiquities acquired by the Hobby Lobby corporation, which had been illegally imported into the U.S. from Iraq.
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