The US Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether Alaska can keep an 82-year-old bush pilot's $95,000 (£70,700) plane over a passenger's six-pack of beer, a dispute that could curb government seizures of property nationwide.
Kenneth Jouppi has spent 14 years fighting the state's attempt to forfeit his 1969 Cessna after troopers found beer packed in a passenger's groceries before an April 2012 flight from Fairbanks to Beaver, a dry village of fewer than 100 residents.
