The Supreme Court’s Tolerance Will Be Tested by Alaska Beer Confiscation Case
You’ll also receive updates on the latest from Slate’s Jurisprudence team. The state of Alaska has spent the past 14 years trying to confiscate an 82-year-old bush pilot’s $95,000 airplane because a passenger packed a six-pack of Budweiser with her groceries.
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You’ll also receive updates on the latest from Slate’s Jurisprudence team. The state of Alaska has spent the past 14 years trying to confiscate an 82-year-old bush pilot’s $95,000 airplane because a passenger packed a six-pack of Budweiser with her groceries. That sentence is not a simplification. And last week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear it, which means the justices will finally have to answer a question they have been dodging for decades: Does the Eighth Amendment’s ban on excessive fines actually stop the government from taking anything?
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- You’ll also receive updates on the latest from Slate’s Jurisprudence team. The state of Alaska has spent the past 14 years trying to confiscate an 82-year-old bush pilot’s $95,000 airplane because a passenger packed a six-pack of Budweiser with her groceries.
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