excessive-fine
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-95 | Michael Pung, Personal Representative of the Estate of Timothy Scott Pung v. Isabella County, Michigan | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-24 | Granted | Amici (26) | excessive-fine fair-market-value fifth-amendment government-seizure property-rights takings-clause | Whether taking and selling a home to satisfy a debt to the government, and keeping the surplus value as a windfall, violates the Takings Clause of the… |
| 23-6732 | Seth Conner Wells v. Florida | Florida | 2024-02-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-challenge cost-of-incarceration due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fine fourteenth-amendment incarceration-cost statutory-interpretation timbs-v-indiana united-states-v-bajakajian | Whether the imposition of a $401,500 cost of incarceration is an unconstitutionally excessive fine |
| 23-5192 | Phiet The Doan v. California | California | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process equal-protection excessive-fine fourteenth-amendment jury-trial restitution sixth-amendment victim-restitution | Did Mr. Doan have a Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to a jury trial on whether he owed almost $64,000 in victim restitution? |
| 22-166 | Geraldine Tyler v. Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-23 | Judgment Issued | Amici (44)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | civil-forfeiture constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fine excessive-fines government-forfeiture property-rights takings-clause tax-debt | Whether the government's retention of surplus proceeds from the sale of a home to satisfy a tax debt violates the Takings Clause |
| 22-160 | Kevin L. Fair v. Continental Resources, et al. | Nebraska | 2022-08-22 | GVR | Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | due-process equity-forfeiture excessive-fine excessive-fines government-seizure just-compensation property-rights takings-clause tax-foreclosure | Does the government violate the Takings Clause when it confiscates property worth more than the debt owed by the owner? |
| 21-5385 | Albert M. Kun v. State Bar of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights due-process excessive-fine fifth-amendment fourth-amendment state-bar timbs-standard timbs-v-indiana | Whether the approximately $40,000 fine assessed by the State Bar is an excessive fine under Timbs v. Indiana 586 U.S.—(2019) for a $460-financial viol… |
| 21-64 | Danny James McLaughlin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-16 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review bajakajian-factors criminal-fine criminal-fines eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-challenge excessive-fine judicial-review proportionality united-states-v-bajakajian | Whether a reviewing court may consider factors beyond those identified in United States v. Bajakajian when determining if a criminal fine is dispropor… |
| 20-1697 | Alice Kimble v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2021-06-09 | Denied | Response Waived | 8th-amendment eighth-amendment excessive-fine fbar foreign-bank-account-report statutory-interpretation tax-evasion tax-penalty willful-violation willfulness | Did the Court err in holding that Alice acted willfully, despite the lack of proof either that she had knowledge of the requirement to file an FBAR or… |
| 20-51 | Pedro Pete Benevides v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-22 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-forfeiture eighth-amendment excessive-fine forfeiture ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines | Whether the forfeiture of over $44 million constitutes an excessive fine under the Eighth Amendment |
| 19-7277 | Dora Moreira v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fine ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct question-not-identified section-2255 sixth-amendment | Whether the Court of Appeals created an irreconcilable conflict with precedential decisions by denying a certificate of appealability on a motion to v… |