Tyson Timbs, Petitioner v. Indiana

Summary

The Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause is incorporated against the States under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause. Tyson Timbs’s Land Rover was seized and the State sought civil forfeiture, which the trial court found disproportionate to his fine. The Indiana Supreme Court had reversed, ruling the Clause did not apply to States. Justice Gorsuch and Justice Thomas concurred in the judgment, suggesting the Privileges or Immunities Clause is the proper vehicle for incorporation.