Institute of Justice, Amicus Curiae
Darpana M. Sheth, Counsel of Record
The Institute for Justice is a nonprofit public interest legal center dedicated to defending private property rights, economic and educational liberty, and the free exchange of ideas. Darpana M. Sheth is a staff attorney with the Institute for Justice. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Respondent as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on August 31, 2012. Amicus files this brief to draw attention to the consequences that this Court’s ruling would have on another area of the law, civil forfeiture, in which narcotics-detection dogs are also used and the probable-cause standard also applies. In…
