{"id":1227,"date":"2019-02-21T02:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2019\/02\/21\/legal-trend-asset-forfeiture-u-s-supreme-court-win\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T02:54:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T02:54:00","slug":"legal-trend-asset-forfeiture-u-s-supreme-court-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/legal-trend-asset-forfeiture-u-s-supreme-court-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal TREND. Asset Forfeiture + U.S. Supreme Court Win."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court applied the\u00a08th Amendment&#8217;s ban on &#8220;excessive fines&#8221; \u00a0to states and local agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Bonjour! to all state bills on asset forefeiture limitations you&#8217;ve found your newest ally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/18pdf\/17-1091_5536.pdf\">Timbs v. Indiana<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/case-files\/cases\/timbs-v-indiana\/\">ScotusBlog | Timbs v. Indiana<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/public-justice-safety\/gov-supreme-court-state-local-government-fines-fees.html?utm_term=Supreme%20Court%3A%20Constitutional%20Ban%20on%20%27Excessive%20Fines%27%20Applies%20to%20State%20and%20Local%20Governments&amp;utm_campaign=Trump%27s%20National%20Emergency%20Jeopardizes%20%246%20Billion%20in%20Funding%20for%20States&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email\">Governing |\u00a0Supreme Court: Constitutional Ban on &#8216;Excessive Fines&#8217; Applies to State and Local Governments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court applied the\u00a08th Amendment&#8217;s ban on &#8220;excessive fines&#8221; \u00a0to states and local agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Bonjour! to all state bills on asset forefeiture limitations you&#8217;ve found your newest ally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/18pdf\/17-1091_5536.pdf\">Timbs v. Indiana<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/case-files\/cases\/timbs-v-indiana\/\">ScotusBlog | Timbs v. Indiana<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/public-justice-safety\/gov-supreme-court-state-local-government-fines-fees.html?utm_term=Supreme%20Court%3A%20Constitutional%20Ban%20on%20%27Excessive%20Fines%27%20Applies%20to%20State%20and%20Local%20Governments&amp;utm_campaign=Trump%27s%20National%20Emergency%20Jeopardizes%20%246%20Billion%20in%20Funding%20for%20States&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email\">Governing |\u00a0Supreme Court: Constitutional Ban on &#8216;Excessive Fines&#8217; Applies to State and Local Governments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,45,4,14,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-legislative-issue","category-civil-asset-forfeiture","category-legal-trend","category-legislation-trend","category-local-government-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}