USA v. ALL ARTICLES OF DRUG LOCATED AT GLOBAL BIOTECHNOLOGIES INC

Filing 17

ORDER adopting 15 Report and Recommended Decision for 9 Petition for Remission or Mitigation filed by GLOBAL BIOTECHNOLOGIES INC. and 11 Motion to Dismiss filed by USA; denying 9 Motion for Remission or Mitigation; granting 11 Motion to Dismiss. By JUDGE JOHN A. WOODCOCK, JR. (MFS)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MAINE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

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Plaintiff,
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ALL ARTICLES OF DRUG LOCATED)
AT GLOBAL BIOTECHNOLOGIES, )
INC.,
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Defendant.
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2:12-cv-00169-JAW

ORDER AFFIRMING THE
RECOMMENDED DECISION OF THE MAGISTRATE JUDGE
No objection having been filed to the Magistrate Judge’s Recommended
Decision filed August 2, 2012, the Recommended Decision is accepted.
Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that the Petition for Remission or
Mitigation (ECF No. 9) be and hereby is DENIED and the Motion to Dismiss
Claim of Corporate Petitioner (ECF No. 11) be and hereby is GRANTED. As
no answer or otherwise valid claim has been filed in response to the forfeiture
complaint and the Clerk has entered default against the corporate entity
because the corporate entity did not file a timely answer to the Complaint, it
is further ORDERED that in the event the Government files a motion for a
default judgment on the Complaint, the entry of a judgment of forfeiture
against the defendant in rem drug articles is the appropriate course of action.

SO ORDERED.
/s/ John A. Woodcock, Jr.___________
JOHN A. WOODCOCK, JR.
CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Dated this 22nd day of August, 2012