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Hobby Lobby Forfeiture: $3 Million is Not a Fine. So What Is It?

ByRick St. Hilaire

The case of United States v. Approximately Four Hundred Fifty (450) Ancient Cuneiform Tablets and Approximately Three Thousand (3,000) Ancient Clay Bullae–the Hobby Lobby cultural artifacts case—involves two parts: (1)…

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Cultural Property Forfeiture: Hobby Lobby Could Pay $2000/Day if U.S. Attorney’s Agreement Violated

ByRick St. Hilaire

Cuneiform tablet subject to forfeiture. After a six and a half year probe by federal authority into ancient cultural property imports acquired by Hobby Lobby, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in…