Such a standard meant that Thomas was implicitly writing out of existence decades of precedent on the Eighth Amendment.

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The business owner can also argue that the amount of money seized from his bank accounts violates the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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The decision comes 21 years after a suit was filed on behalf of an inmate alleging that treatment provided to mentally ill inmates was so poor as to violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishments, a claim consolidated with a later case alleging similarly deficient care of inmates with physical ailments.

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