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Message:: [QUOTE="Conder101, post: 2138882, member: 66"]The CAFRA filing was part of the court records for the third circuit trial. but that filing was before the trial started.  The appeals court seized on that and ruled that since the government failed to reply to the filing as the law required then they had to pay the penalty the law called for.  The return of the property and no further action to recover the property allowed. That is what the law requires.  If the government couldn't have the trial within the 90 days they should have responded to the CAFRA filing and then they would have had plenty of time. What trial?  With this ruling there was no trial. Shouldn't be, the penalty as applied by the law from the CAFRA is that they can't take further actions to recover the property. May not make sense but that is exactly the penalty written into the law. Who loses them the Langbords or the Treasury Dept?  There is precedent for the Treasury Dept "losing" coins they have been ordered to return.  See the 1969-S Doubled die cents they seized as fakes.  (There were fake 69 P doubled dies and the seized those and double die 69-S cents as well.  When the S mint coins were determined to be real they were ordered to be returned.  "Opps, sorry we destroyed them."[/QUOTE]