Megaupload Executives Ask High Court To Hear Foreign Asset Forfeiture Case

(April 14, 2017, 11:10 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an April 7 petition for certiorari, former executives with now-defunct file-sharing service Megaupload ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments over the U.S. government’s application of laws governing the forfeiture of foreign-held assets by those deemed to be fugitives avoiding prosecution, arguing that their assets were wrongly seized in conjunction with a novel, untested theory of criminal copyright infringement (Finn Batato, et al. v. United States of America, No. 16-1206, U.S. Sup.)....