statutory-fines

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-427 William Verrinder v. City of Lewiston, Maine Maine 2022-11-07 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment hearing-fee municipal-law notice-of-violation property-rights property-seizure statutory-fines Whether the City of Lewiston, Maine can require the Petitioner to pay a fee to buy a hearing or defend himself
18-463 Bernard Morello v. Texas Texas 2018-10-12 Denied Response Waived arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-proportionality due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment proportionality state-law state-statute statutory-fines Does a properly enacted state statute imposing fines and penalties violate the Eighth Amendment if the state applies the statute arbitrarily and abusi…