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exclusive penal sanctions

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Definitions from Case Law

From 355 U.S. 373 - Nashville Milk Company v. Carnation Company Safeway Stores · 1958Most cited · 291 citing opinions

this section contains only penal sanctions for violation of its provisions; in the absence of a clear expression of congressional intent to the contrary, these sanctions should under familiar principles be considered exclusive, rather than supplemented by civil sanctions of a distinct statute.

How often courts cite the case defining “exclusive penal sanctions”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “exclusive penal sanctions” — 288 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.