Mises Wire
Author:
Tate Fegley
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There is a case — Timbs v. Indiana — currently before the United States Supreme Court regarding civil asset forfeiture and whether the excessive fines clause of the 8th Amendment also applies to the states due to the 14th Amendment’s incorporation clause. The petitioner is Tyson Timbs , who became addicted to the opioid hydrocodone after having