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  1. February 20, 2019

    States Can't Impose Excessive Fines, High Court Rules

    The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the constitutional bar on excessive fines applies to state and local governments, unanimously siding with a convicted drug dealer in his fight to reclaim a $42,000 Land Rover the state of Indiana had seized via civil forfeiture.

  2. November 21, 2018

    Up Next At High Court: Apple's App Store, Civil Forfeiture

    The U.S. Supreme Court will return from the Thanksgiving holiday weekend Monday with a high-profile antitrust case involving Apple Inc.'s app store practices, followed by several more that present interesting questions such as whether the Eighth Amendment's clause barring excessive fines applies to the states. Here, Law360 highlights four cases that readers should know about.

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