Opinion ID: 721169
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Heading: legality of the seizure

Text: 14 VNR argues that the district court erred by declining to reach the issue of the legality of the seizure. The Customs Service provided statutorily and constitutionally sufficient notice of the seizure and forfeiture proceedings. Since the notice was adequate, VNR had an adequate remedy at law to challenge the legality of the seizure. The forfeiture proceeding was the proper forum to challenge the legality of the seizure. We cannot come in, deus ex machina, and save a claim where notice is constitutionally sufficient[.] Sarit, 987 F.2d at 17. VNR contends that we should hear the claim because it never received actual notice. Absent a legal defect in the notice, however, we cannot correct any residual ineffectiveness. Id.