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Financial Hardship and the Excessive Fines Clause: Assessing the Severity of Property Forfeitures After Timbs

This Essay sketches the outlines of a forfeitures jurisprudence under the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause in which the effect of property deprivations on individuals and their families—in particular, the infliction of financial hardship—is a core criterion in assessing a forfeiture’s sever…