NYC Hit With Class Action Over 'Kafkaesque' Seizure System

By Dorothy Atkins ( October 23, 2026, 8:39 PM EDT) -- New York City has been hit with a proposed class action in federal court, alleging that the New York Police Department regularly unconstitutionally seizes property, which can only be recovered in a "Kafkaesque Odyssey" and by navigating a "bureaucratic scavenger hunt, riddled with contradictory instructions, arbitrary requirements and dead ends."  ...

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