Route Fifty: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider a case that could clarify the constraints that state and local governments must adhere to when imposing fines or seizing property.
Timbs v. Indiana concerns the clause of the Constitution's Eighth Amendment prohibiting “excessive fines” against criminal defendants, and whether it applies to not only the federal government, but to states and local criminal justice systems as well.
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