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Civil penalties occupy a strange place in some legal systems - because they are not criminal penalties, the state need not meet a high burden of proof, such as "beyond a reasonable doubt"; but because the action is brought by the government, and some civil penalties can run into very large sums, it would be uncomfortable to subject citizens to ...
The following is a list of the 21 largest civil settlements, reached between the United States Department of Justice and pharmaceutical companies from 2001 to 2017, ordered by the size of the total civil settlement. Some of these matters also resolved criminal fines and penalties, listed in parentheses, but these amounts are not considered when ...
Some fines are small, such as for loitering, for which fines (in the United States) range from about $25 to $100. [ 9 ] [ obsolete source ] In some areas of the United States (for example California , New York , Texas , and Washington D.C. ), fines for petty crimes, such as criminal mischief (shouting in public places, projecting an object at a ...
Judge Arthur Engoron hit Donald Trump with his biggest punishment to date on Friday, in a ruling that fined the former president $355 million for fraudulently inflating the values of his properties.
The statute provides that anyone who violates the law "is liable to the United States Government for a civil penalty of not less than $5,000 and not more than $10,000, as adjusted by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, [24] plus 3 times the amount of damages which the Government sustains because of the act of that person."
Miami Beach enacts $1,000 fines at boat ramp as live-aboard crackdown escalates ... a lawyer to sue the city for “violations of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, various state maritime laws” and ...
Trump agreed to pay $750,000 to settle the civil penalties of the antitrust lawsuit. [ 30 ] In 2016, the American Bar Association (ABA) commissioned a report to highlight Trump's excess litigation, entitled "Donald J. Trump is a Libel Bully but also a Libel Loser", but initially declined to publish it fearing being sued by Trump.
A Russian court has fined Google $20 decillion for allegedly blocking pro-Kremlin propaganda on YouTube.. The fine, which is the equivalent of $20 billion trillion trillion, is the result of four ...