In a major victory for civil liberties advocates, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled to limit the practice of civil asset forfeiture—a controversial practice where police seize property that belongs to people suspected of crimes, even if they are never convicted. On Wednesday, the court ruled the Eighth Amendment protects people from state and local authorities imposing onerous fines, fees and forfeitures to generate money.

The case centered on Indiana man Tyson Timbs, who had sold drugs and was sentenced to prison. Timbs didn’t contest his sentence but objected to police seizing his Land Rover, which was worth four times the maximum fine he could receive from his drug conviction. After the unanimous ruling in Timbs’s favor, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg delivered the court’s opinion, saying, “The historical and logical case for concluding that the 14th Amendment incorporates the Excessive Fines Clause is overwhelming.” We’ll have more on the significance of this historic ruling after headlines.