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To: Thomas M. who wrote (13055)	10/24/2025 4:15:16 PM
From: miraje	Respond to of 13056

I'm glad that the IJ has taken this case, as confiscating a $95,000 airplane over three cases of beer is beyond outrageous, IMO. Another example of government theft, pure and simple. Whole article at the link.. foxnews.com Alaska pilot seeks SCOTUS relief in case in which three beer cases led to forfeiture of $95K plane An 82-year-old Alaskan bush pilot is seeking to take his fight over a $95,000 airplane and a few cans of beer to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to his lawyers. With the help of the Institute for Justice, Kenneth Jouppi is appealing a ruling by the Alaska Supreme Court that upheld the forfeiture of his aircraft, a punishment that, according to a release shared on the institute’s website, he says violates the Constitution’s protection against excessive fines. On April 3, 2012, Jouppi, an Air Force veteran and owner of KenAir LLC, was set to fly a passenger and her groceries from Fairbanks to Beaver, a small remote Alaskan village about 110 miles north. Hidden in the passenger’s luggage, though, were three cases of beer, two Budweiser and one Bud Light, intended as a gift to her husband, who worked in Beaver as the local postmaster," the Institute for Justice’s release said. Before Jouppi could take off, Alaska State Troopers searched the plane and found the beer. Jouppi insisted he had no knowledge of it, but prosecutors charged him with knowingly transporting alcohol into a dry village...