Six years ago, in Timbs v. Indiana, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote a majority opinion that pointed out the origins of the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause and the original ...
The Eleventh Circuit held that three penalties of 23 assessed against a taxpayer for failure to file Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Form 114, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial ...
An Alaska man is petitioning the Supreme Court to consider whether the government's seizure of his $95,000 plane for transporting an illicit six-pack of beer is an excessive fine under the Eighth ...