Audinot v. United States
Audinot v. United States, 498 U.S. 866 (1990)
Opinion of the Court
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C. A. 3d Cir. Certiorari denied.
How later courts describe this case
Explanatory parentheticals written by citing courts — 4 in all; the most informative distinct ones are shown.
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(holding that the Double Jeopardy Clause may be triggered when a “civil penalty ... rose to the level of criminal punishment because of the lack of rational relation to the Government’s loss”)
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(assessment of $1,791,100 in civil penalties based upon same conduct as criminal proceedings in civil action for filing false medicare claims remanded to the district court for a Halper analysis)
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(order of proceedings, civil and criminal, does not effect double jeopardy application)
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(the Halper principle applies whether civil penalty or criminal punishment comes first)
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