Yesterday, the Supreme Court agreed to take an extremely Alaskan case that reads like something out of Smokey and the Bandit. As Amy Howe at SCOTUSBlog explains:

The justices agreed to review Jouppi v. Alaska, an Alaskan bush pilot’s challenge to the forfeiture of his $95,000 airplane — which prosecutors sought on the theory that he must have known that one of his passengers was bringing a six-pack of beer into an Alaskan village where alcohol is prohibited. That forfeiture, pilot Ken Jouppi contends, violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on excessive fines… The case now before the court began more than 14 years ago, when Jouppi was scheduled to fly a........

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