Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump certainly should not be the poster boy for the Excessive Fines Clause. Though his half-billion-dollar win ...

Six years ago, in Timbs v. Indiana, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote a majority opinion that pointed out the origins of the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause and the original ...

In a civil fraud case last year, New York County Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron ruled that Donald Trump's habit of exaggerating his wealth justified "disgorgement" of nearly half a billion ...