January 25, 2023

The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in SEC v. Spartan Securities Group, calling on the court to protect citizens from excessive fines in violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment. “Since the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215, English law and later the English Bill of Rights have prohibited excessive fines… This liberty interest was so vital that in drafting the Eighth Amendment, the Framers of the U.S. Constitution adopted the prohibition on excessive fines verbatim from the 1689 English Bill of Rights.”