| Timbs v. Indiana | |
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| Argued November 28, 2018 Decided February 20, 2019 | |
| Full case name | Tyson Timbs v. State of Indiana |
| Docket no. | 17-1091 |
| Citations | 586 U.S. 146 (more) 139 S. Ct. 682; 203 L. Ed. 2d 11 |
| Argument | Oral argument |
| Case history | |
| Prior | State v. Timbs, 62 N.E.3d 472 (Ind. Ct. App. 2016); reversed, 84 N.E.3d 1179 (Ind. 2017); cert. granted, 138 S. Ct. 2650 (2018). |
| Holding | |
| The Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause is an incorporated protection applicable to the States pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause. | |
| Court membership | |
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| Case opinions | |
| Majority | Ginsburg, joined by Roberts, Breyer, Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh |
| Concurrence | Gorsuch |
| Concurrence | Thomas (in judgment) |
| Laws applied | |
| U.S. Const. amend. VIII, XIV | |
Timbs v. Indiana, 586 U.S. 146 (2019), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court considered whether the excessive fines clause of the Constitution's Eighth Amendment applies to state and local governments. The case covered the asset forfeiture of the petitioner's truck after the police found a small quantity of drugs within it and he was convicted on non-felony possession charges.
In February 2019, the Court unanimously ruled that the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of excessive fines is an incorporated protection applicable to the states under the Fourteenth Amendment.