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Curb on the regulatory state? Court holds corporations protected from “excessive fines”0
- June 17, 2019
Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the Excessive Fines Clause does protect corporations.
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Justice Thomas again shows he’s the Supreme Court’s only consistent originalist0
- February 25, 2019
Although Justice Thomas agreed that the protection against excessive fines applies to the states, he was the only member of the court to do so on plausible originalist grounds.
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