Civil asset forfeiture is a particularly controversial, but generally lawful, police practice involving state and federal law enforcement authorities seizing property and cash from individuals who often are simply suspected of committing a crime. Research civil asset forfeiture cases and the passage of a historic law in California banning the practice and paving the way for other states to do the same, at www.aclunc.org/search?terms=civil%20forfeiture. Then see Merrill Matthews, “Civil Asset Forfeiture and the Constitution,” IPI Ideas, no. 70, February 18, 2016 [www.ipi.org/ipi_issues/detail/civil-asset-forfeiture-and-the-constitution]. Explain the constitutional challenges that might be raised against civil asset forfeitures.