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The Eighth Amendment was adopted, as part of the Bill of Rights, in 1791.It is almost identical to a provision in the English Bill of Rights of 1689, in which Parliament declared, "as their ancestors in like cases have usually done ... that excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
The First Amendment did not excuse newspapers from the Sherman Antitrust Act. News, traded between states, counts as interstate commerce and is subject to the act. Freedom of the press from governmental interference under the First Amendment does not sanction repression of that freedom by private interests (326 U.S. 20 [clarification needed]).
Free Press, the journal of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom; The Free Press Journal, an Indian daily newspaper; Columbus Free Press, a former monthly "alternative" journal published in Columbus, Ohio, now published as Free Press newspaper, Free Press Express broadsheet and on the website freepress.org
2.5 Eighth Amendment. 2.6 Fourteenth Amendment. 2.7 Recurring clauses. ... Free Speech Clause; Free Press Clause; Free Assembly Clause; Petition Clause; Fourth Amendment
Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of India, extended the period of reserved seats in the parliament; Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, which recognized the equal right to life of an unborn child; Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, which changed Pakistan's government from a parliamentary system to a semi ...
Timbs v. Indiana, 586 U.S. 146 (2019), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court considered whether the excessive fines clause of the Constitution's Eighth Amendment applies to state and local governments.
The Excessive Bail Clause of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits excessive bail set in pre-trial detention. If a judge posts excessive bail, the defendant's lawyer may make a motion in court to lower the bail or appeal directly to a higher court.
In 2005, Henderson found that substandard medical care in the California prison system had violated prisoners' rights under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution to be protected from cruel and unusual punishment and had led to unnecessary deaths in California prisons. [6] [7]