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Depriving someone of his truck when it serves as his home constitutes an excessive fine that is forbidden by the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled.
The case is City of Seattle v. Long, court file 98824-2; it was decided on Aug. 12.
