Sherman Timbs can laugh about it, now. “Freshman year I got here and it was probably 18 of us in the d-line room,” he recalls. Nor was it just the numbers. That Mississippi State meeting room featured ...

Sherman Timbs had one of the more interesting journeys from high school to the Mississippi State two-deep chart. After a pair of state titles and an All-State career at Indianola Academy, Timbs ...

Timbs v. Indiana has received a lot of attention because it deals with a controversial subject — civil asset forfeitures. But, as a practical matter, this case is unlikely to have much of an impact.

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the Constitution's ban on excessive fines applies to the states, an outcome that could help efforts to rein in police seizure of property from ...

There are few matters nowadays on which all nine Supreme Court justices can agree. But the Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the Eighth Amendment, which bans excessive fines, applies to the ...

It went all the way to the US Supreme Court, and is now back in the Indiana state Supreme Court for the third time. The long-running Timbs v. Indiana asset forfeiture case is back in the Indiana ...

'Timbs', on its own, will not result in any seismic shift in New York forfeiture law or practice. However, when taken together with other recent forfeiture-related decisions from the Supreme Court and ...