Over the Summer, the Supreme Court will grant miscellaneous orders as needed for individual cases. And usually, towards the end of July and the end of August, the Court issues a formal orders list. Most of the entries are denials of rehearing or orders in pending cases. But today's order list had a surprise entry: a cert grant!
25-246 JOUPPI, KENNETH J. V. ALASKA The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted.
The question presented is "whether, in determining whether a fine contravenes the Excessive Fines Clause, courts may consider the gravity of the underlying offense purely in the abstract or should consider the gravity of the specific defendant's wrongdoing."
