Walden V. Gina Fiore Summary

In this case “Anthony Walden vs. Gina Fiore” they are trying to figure out if the state of Nevada has the right to exercise personal jurisdiction over the case. On August 8, 2006 TSA at San Juan airport searched Gina Fiore and Keith Gipson and their bags where they found about 97,000 dollars cash, Fiore told them that they were just extreme gamblers that had just finished gambling at a local spot El San Juan. Also, she stated that she was a resident of California and Nevada and she planned to catch the flight to Atlanta then take a connected flight to Nevada. Even with that large sum of money they were cleaned and boarded the flight and departed to Atlanta. A law enforcement officer from the San Juan airport contacted the petitioner task force
The next day and over the course of a month Fiore had people to make efforts from Nevada to show that the money was indeed legit and have not been earned illegally. The petitioner helped draft an affidavit to show probable cause for forfeiture of the funds. Fiore filed a lawsuit against Walden in the district court of Nevada saying Walden had no probable cause to search and seize the money and for him keeping the money even why he found out that the money was indeed legit. The District Court granted Walden motion to dismiss the case because Nevada had no jurisdiction over the case, for the seizer of the money took place in Georgia. During the appeal a divided panel ended up coming to the verdict that the search and seizer of the money could not support Nevada jurisdiction, however the Nevada had jurisdiction over the alleged false affidavit for knowing it would be a significant connection o Nevada also that delaying the funds would cause foreseeable harm which made this jurisdiction