Attorney Stephen J. Dunn's Legal Cases

White collar crime

U.S. v. Funds From Fifth Third Bank

Nov 04, 2013

OUTCOME: Summary judgment for my client, recovery of the $135,596 unlawfully seized from my client, and recovery of all of my client's attorney fees--$58,267.

IRS seized $135,596 from client's bank account without notice. Seizure violated Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution; was an excessive fine in violation o ... f the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; and violated the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000. Opinion and Order granting Motion for Summary Judgment at 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 157447 (E.D. Mich. 2013). Order granting our Motion for Attorney Fees in full at 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 27783 (E.D. Mich. 2014). Based upon result in this case, Government conceded two other cases--U.S. v. Thirty-Five Thousand Six Hundred Fifty-One Dollars and Eleven Cents, Case No. 4:13-cv-134118 (E.D. Mich. 2013); and U.S. v. Thirty-Three Thousand Two-Hundred Forty-Four Dollars and Eighty-Six Cents, Case No. 2:13-cv-13990 (E.D. Mich. 2013).

Tax fraud and tax evasion

Cor-Bon Custom Bullet Co. v. United States

Apr 27, 2000

OUTCOME: Jury acquitted my client of tax evasion on all counts.

Won jury acquittal of my client on all counts in Cor-Bon Custom Bullet Co. v. United States, 287 F.3d 576 (6th Cir.), cert. denied, 537 U.S. 880, 154 L. Ed. 2d 136, 123 S. Ct. 90 (2002); earlier procee ... dings sub nom. Pi v. United States, 174 F.3d 745 (6th Cir.), cert. denied, 528 U.S. 825, 145 L. Ed. 2d 63, 120 S. Ct. 74 (1999).

Stephen J. Dunn's Legal Cases (2)

U.S. v. Funds From Fifth Third Bank

Cor-Bon Custom Bullet Co. v. United States