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''Tate v. Short'', 401 U.S. 395 (1971), was a
United States Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that involve a point o ...
case in which the Court held it is a violation of equal protection to convert a fine to jail time simply because the sentenced person cannot pay the fine..


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Bearden v. Georgia ''Bearden v. Georgia'', 461 U.S. 660 (1983), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case holding that a local government can only imprison or jail someone for not paying a fine if it can be shown, by means of a hearing, that the person in question coul ...
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Williams v. Illinois ''Williams v. Illinois'', 399 U.S. 235 (1970), was a United States Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction ove ...
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* 1971 in United States case law United States equal protection case law United States Supreme Court cases United States Supreme Court cases of the Burger Court {{SCOTUS-stub