United States v. Lucas Buckley

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS AUG 18 2023

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 22-16248

Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 3:20-cv-07811-RS

v. MEMORANDUM*

LUCAS E. BUCKLEY,

Claimant-Appellant,

v.

APPROXIMATELY 69,370 BITCOIN

(BTC), BITCOIN GOLD (BTG) BITCOIN

SV (BSV) AND BITCOIN CASH (BCH),

Defendant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Richard Seeborg, Chief District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 8, 2023 San Francisco, California

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. Before: MILLER and KOH, Circuit Judges, and LYNN,** District Judge.

In this civil forfeiture case, Claimant-Appellant Lucas Buckley appeals the

district court’s order below granting the government’s motion to strike his claim

for lack of Article III standing. We have jurisdiction to review Buckley’s appeal

under 28 U.S.C. § 1291.

The parties are…