A court of appeals in New York on Thursday vacated the $454 million civil fraud judgment imposed on President Donald Trump and his namesake family business.

In a flurry of varying opinions spanning 323 pages , a panel determined the massive punishment imposed on the 45th and 47th president, the Trump Organization, and the company's other executives – including Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr. – was unconstitutional.

"While the injunctive relief ordered by the court is well crafted to curb defendants' business culture, the court's disgorgement order, which directs that defendants pay nearly half a billion dollars to the State of New York, is an excessive fine that violates the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution," the prevailing concurrence in the fractured decision issued

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