civil-penalty
12 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-902 | Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. | Third Circuit | 2026-02-02 | Pending | anti-injunction-act civil-penalty drug-price-negotiation excessive-fines-clause fifth-amendment first-amendment | The Drug Price Negotiation Program (Program) threatens enterprise-destroying fines unless a drug manufacturer both provides its products at government… | |
| 24A627 | United States v. Steven Zorn, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-26 | Presumed Complete | civil-penalty eighth-amendment excessive-fines false-claims-act medicaid-fraud qui-tam | Question not identified. | |
| 24-549 | Stephen B. Grant, on Behalf of the United States and the State of Iowa v. Steven Zorn, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-11-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | civil-penalty eighth-amendment excessive-fines-clause false-claims-act qui-tam statutory-damages | 1. Whether the FCA's statutory civil penalty must be limited to a single-digit multiplier of the actual damages under the Eighth Amendment, in a non-i… |
| 22-1073 | Team Resources Incorporated, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-04 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-penalty disgorgement due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing federal-court securities-and-exchange-commission securities-law | Whether a federal court may grant a disgorgement request from the Securities and Exchange Commission without granting a defendant's request for a live… |
| 22-598 | Arthur Bedrosian v. United States, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-12-29 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-penalty civil-procedure due-process foreign-account foreign-account-reporting irs objective-standard statutory-interpretation subjective-standard tax willful-violation willfulness | Whether willfulness under 31 U.S.C. § 5321(a)(5)(C) should be determined according to a subjective, rather than objective, standard that focuses on an… |
| 22-468 | Daniel James Altstatt v. City of Sacramento, California | California | 2022-11-18 | Denied | bajakajian-factors civil-penalty civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine united-states-v-bajakajian | Following the Court's ruling in Timbs v. Indiana, 139 S. Ct. 682 (2019), which held that the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment is incorpo… | |
| 22-177 | Monica Toth v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-08-29 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (5) | bank-secrecy-act civil-penalties civil-penalty deterrence deterrent-penalty eighth-amendment excessive-fines-clause fbar foreign-bank-accounts | The Bank Secrecy Act and implementing regulations require U.S. persons to file an annual report—called an FBAR—if they have foreign bank accounts cont… |
| 21-1195 | Alexandru Bittner v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-02 | Judgment Issued | Amici (9)Relisted (2) | bank-secrecy-act civil-penalty fbar fbar-reporting foreign-accounts penalty-assessment per-account per-form statutory-construction treasury-regulations | Whether a "violation" under the Act is the failure to file an annual FBAR (no matter the number of foreign accounts), or whether there is a separate v… |
| 21-591 | Donald J. Fowler v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Second Circuit | 2021-10-22 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-penalties civil-penalty civil-procedure constitutional-limits disgorgement excessive-penalties private-agreement sec-enforcement statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1. Where 28 U.S.C. § 2462 provides in relevant part that, "[e]xcept as otherwise provided by Act of Congress, an action, suit or proceeding for the en… |
| 19-1149 | UPMC, et al. v. United States, ex rel. J. William Bookwalter, III, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-03-19 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | ambiguity civil-penalty civil-procedure false-claims-act knowledge knowledge-standard pleading-standard regulatory-ambiguity regulatory-provision scienter treble-damages | Whether a plaintiff plausibly alleges scienter—that a defendant knowingly submitted false claims—when the plaintiff does not allege any facts to sugge… |
| 18-1053 | Ashland Specialty Co., Inc. v. Dale W. Steager, West Virginia State Tax Commissioner | West Virginia | 2019-02-11 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bajakajian-standard civil-monetary-penalty civil-noncompliance civil-penalty cooper-industries-v-leatherman eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause-8th-amendment gross-disproportionality grossly-disproportionate master-settlement-agreement proportionality regulatory-compliance state-tax united-states-v-bajakajian | Whether a 500% civil penalty imposed on a small business for inadvertent noncompliance is grossly disproportionate under the Eighth Amendment's Excess… |
| 18-284 | Scott Gessler v. Matt Smith, et al. | Colorado | 2018-09-05 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law administrative-procedure administrative-state civil-penalty civil-rights due-process government-ethics notice quasi-criminal vagueness void-for-vagueness | Are civil laws that impose a personal penalty subject to the same void-for-vagueness standards as criminal laws and deportation laws? |