The Supreme Court’s Tolerance Will Be Tested by Alaska Beer Confiscation Case The US Supreme Court's decision to hear Jouppi v.
Alaska, a case involving the confiscation of an 82 year old bush pilot's airplane due to a six pack of beer on board, has brought attention to a long neglected corner of the law: the Eighth Amendment's ban on excessive fines.
In 2012, Ken Jouppi was flying a passenger from Fairbanks to Beaver, a dry village with a strict local option law prohibiting the importation of alcohol.