New York City violated the constitutional rights of a babysitter by fining her more than $11,000 for posting handbills advertising her business on city-owned property, a state trial court ruled.
In an order signed April 2, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Paul Wooten ruled in Pujols v. City of New York, 103637/12, that the city and related entities violated the excessive fines clause of the Eighth Amendment and annulled the fine.
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