1. Discuss what type of title each party has and how it can be lawfully transferred. 2. Who do you think the court should choose as the rightful owner and why? 3. Why do you think the car was uninsured? 4. Who should pay for the storage and transport of the vehicle to the party who ultimately prevails? CASE STUDY The U.S. Attorney's Office in Western New York is looking for the rightful owner of a Ferrari stolen in Italy 18 years ago. WIVB reports a 1996 Ferrari F50 was stolen in 2003 and then found during an inspection at the Peace Bridge in Buffalo, N.Y., on December 14, 2019. The car was being transported across the border from Canada into the U.S. when Customs and Border Protection officers noticed some rivets on the VIN plate were covered with a black tar substance. The vehicle, with 10,708 miles on it and worth an estimated $1.9 million, was determined to be stolen but the government has filed a civil action to determine who can take ownership of it. According to The Buffalo News, two people are claiming it's theirs. Ferrari's records show the sports car was stolen from a hotel parking garage on March 30, 2003, just a month after an Italian man, Paolo Provenzi, bought it with his father and brother. And a Florida man, Mohammed Alsaloussi of Miami, says he bought it online for $1.435 million in September 2019 for his car collection. Provenzi never recovered the vehicle and reportedly provided documentation from his insurance company showing his loss was not covered. Alsaloussi, who owns the Ikonick Collection Ltd., said he didn't know it was stolen when he bought it. The vehicle's been in federal custody for more than a year, but its journey before that is a mystery. The car currently has a Canadian license plate and Provenzi's lawyer, Alessandra Piras, said a Japanese man asked Provenzi to withdraw his police report a few years ago. "When this is over, there's going to be a movie made about this," Piras told the Buffalo News. "This car has been going around the world, apparently. It was in Japan for a while." U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr., of the United States Attorney's Office in the Western District of New York, said he was filing a civil action to determine the vehicle's owner. "After investigation, my Office determined that it would not be appropriate for us to exercise our authority and forfeit this extremely valuable and previously stolen luxury car," Kennedy said. "Instead, after an 18-year odyssey, which we know took it across continents and countries, we have decided that the time has come for a court of law to determine the rightful owner of the vehicle