Looking for a fairly short and interesting appeals court case to read on your summer vacation? Check out United States v. $124,700 in US Currency. In the 8th Circuit, at least, driving with a large sum of money hidden in a container, even in the absence of any other factors, is apparently enough evidence for the government to seize the money as ill gotten gains from illegal drug trade. The War on Drugs, I guess, has reached its illogical peak. Amazingly disproportionate prison sentences, arrests of terminally ill cancer patients, and now carte blanche to just take citizens money with absolutely no proof of wrongdoing, all in the name of fighting a never-ending and unwinnable war on an amorphous concept. Hmm, wait, I’m seeing a pattern here.