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Cars can facilitate freedom. They also drive discrimination.

The city has issued over $100 million in fines against property owners, but the vast majority have challenged the penalties.

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FBI found $1m in cash, drugs and guns at Beverly Hills safety deposit box business used by criminals - and left note telling owners to contact agents to get it back A newly unsealed indictment from March 9 alleges that U.S. Private Vaults and its customers were laundering money Prosecutors also allege the company was letting drug dealers store fentanyl, guns and cash in boxes and claimed the business marketed itself to crooks  Agents with the FBI and Drug Enforcement Agency seized the contents...

"The Burdens of the Excessive Fines Clause" The title of this post is the title of this new article now available via SSRN authored by Beth Colgan. Here is its abstract: A key component is missing from the Eighth Amendment’s excessive fines clause doctrine: who has the burden of proof?  This question — which has been essentially ignored by both federal and state courts — is not just a second order problem.  Rather, the assignment of burdens of proof is essential to the clause’s enforc...