The U.S. Supreme Court shot down a request for speedy hearings in civil asset forfeiture cases on Thursday, but critics of police property seizures have cause for hope in the writings of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor in the case Culley v. Marshall.

“I think [local governments] should feel like the system of funding your police department by forfeiting people’s cars and using those funds to provide services, that system is kind of in the crosshairs,” said Cody Gray, a partner at Keker, Van Nest & Peters, reflecting on the high court’s disposition in Culley.