The forfeiture fight outlasted his flying career, and last year it produced the ruling the Supreme Court will now review. In more than two centuries, the Supreme Court has found a fine unconstitutionally excessive exactly once. Every state court in America was told that the clause applies to them, and not one was told how to apply it. Jouppi v. Alaska grew in that vacuum. Sometime next spring, the Supreme Court will tell him, and the rest of us, whether it does.