Federal judge dismisses Hitchcock’s suit over $721,000 gambling-investigation seizure
A US federal judge dismissed Hitchcock, Texas’s attempt to recover about $721,000 seized from its general fund bank account during an investigation into alleged illegal gambling. Judge Jeffery Brown ruled that one government subdivision could not sue another under federal civil rights law; Hitchcock officials had argued the seizure threatened public services and violated constitutional protections.
The ruling leaves Hitchcock unable to pursue recovery of the seized funds through the federal civil rights claim described.