Yitz Etshalom asks about confiscating student property. While the details of the case he outlines are quite extraordinary, the fundamental halakhic question was addressed by Moshe Bleich in Ten Daat vol. VIII (1995), 55-63 and discussed on Lookjed back in 2006 (https://www.lookstein.org/lookjed/read.php?1,6642,6704,quote=1)
