The following excerpt is from United States v. Approximately $15,408.00 in U.S. Currency, Case No. 1:13-CV-01305-AWI-SMS (E.D. Cal. 2013):
When the Government knows the identity of the property owner, due process requires "the Government to make a greater effort to give him notice than otherwise would be mandated by publication." United States v. Real Property, 135 F.3d 1312, 1315 (9th Cir. 1998). In such cases, the Government must attempt to provide actual notice by means reasonably calculated under all circumstances to apprise the owner of the pendency of the forfeiture action. Dusenbery v. United States, 534 U.S. 161, 168 (2002)(quotations omitted). See also Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank
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& Trust Co., 339 U.S. 306, 315 (1950) (requiring such notice "as one desirous of actually informing the absentee might reasonably adopt to accomplish it"). "Reasonable notice, however, requires only that the government attempt to provide actual notice; it does not require that the government demonstrate that it was successful in providing actual notice." Mesa Valderrama v. United States, 417 F.3d 1189, 1197 (11th Cir. 2005).
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