"Forfeiture would violate the excessive fines clause of the Eighth Amendment," the lawyer wrote in his motion for Mr. Dominguez, citing a recent string of Supreme Court cases throwing out seizures that were "grossly disproportionate to the gravity of the offense".
Timbs asks whether the excessive fines clause does indeed apply equally in every state.
The Indiana Supreme Court said that taking the car was legal under state law, and that the U.S. Supreme Court hasn't clearly ruled that the amendment's excessive fines clause applies to all states under the 14th Amendment, which guarantees laws apply equally to people living in every state.
It tried to justify the fees with one of the 26 fine-print clauses in the customer contract, which stated that terms were "subject to change without notice".
You'd have done better buying right after Cramer told you to sell, in other words - but only if you knew when to sell, yourself, which is the fine-print clause that sinks most of these wonderful stock stories.
The city's plan to build a West Side stadium was actually undone by a fine-print clause: "The southern portion must be winterized for Georgina Bloomberg and her equestrian friends".
The association defended, for instance, the fine-print arbitration clauses in consumer contracts for car rentals, cellphones and the like.
The public was shut out entirely and the city ended up with a $1 billion in lost revenue, skyrocketing meter rates and fine-print contract clauses that put the city in a straightjacket for decades.
The state's battle with Mr. Capoccia over his debt reduction practice comes as credit card issuers themselves have been accused, in Congress and elsewhere, of worsening the extent of consumer debt by flooding people with tempting offers of credit that relegated to fine print escalating interest clauses and fees and penalties for falling in arrears.
If the company spots negative comments, it threatens to enforce its fine print anti-disparagement clauses and sue those customers, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which filed a complaint for a federal injunction against the company on September 24.
