President Donald Trump has scored a significant win with a New York appeals court throwing out the half-a-billion dollar penalty he received in his business fraud case.
The decision on Aug. 21 was issued after a hearing last year in which the appeals court seemed skeptical of the case against Trump.
A concurring opinion from Justice Peter Moulton said that the lower “court’s disgorgement order, which directs that defendants pay nearly half a billion dollars to the State of New York, is an excessive fine that violates the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution.”
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