forfeiture
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Technically, Vennells retains the CBE title until it is revoked by the Honors Forfeiture Committee, a move Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he would support.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 9, 2024
A petition addressed to senior civil servant Sir Chris Wormald, the chair of the Forfeiture Committee, calling for Ms Vennells to lose her honour has attracted more than one million signatures.
From BBC • Jan. 8, 2024
The Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 specifies that if anyone contests civil forfeiture at the federal level and “substantially prevails,” then “the United States shall be liable for reasonable attorney fees.”
From Slate • Aug. 10, 2023
HSI's enforcement has been curtailed by policy limitations within the Department of Treasury's Executive Office for Asset Forfeiture, the senators said in the letter, a copy of which was reviewed by Reuters.
From Reuters • Apr. 27, 2023
In 2000, Congress passed the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act, which was meant to address many of the egregious examples of abuse of civil forfeiture.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Vocabulary lists containing forfeiture
The Constitution of the United States
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Stamp Act (1765)
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The Merchant of Venice
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