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 ...

The Eighth Amendment. What is cruel and unusual punishment? Who gets to define and decide its boundaries? And how did the Constitution's authors imagine it might change? Today on Throughline's We the ...

"Even if it could be demonstrated unequivocally that [public flogging and hand branding] were not cruel and unusual measures in 1791 ... I doubt whether any federal judge -- even among the many who ...

The Eleventh Circuit held that three penalties of 23 assessed against a taxpayer for failure to file Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Form 114, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial ...

Legal Edge: Laws against camping in parks vs. 8th amendment ...