Kenneth Jouppi argues that taking his 1969 Cessna over one passenger's drink choice would violate the Eighth Amendment's “Excessive Fines Clause."

A six-pack of Budweiser could cost an Alaskan pilot his $95,000 plane unless the Supreme Court agrees the punishment doesn’t fit the crime.

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear an appeal from an Alaskan bush pilot whose plane was seized by authorities after they discovered it was bound for a remote dry village with…