penal measure
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 329 U.S. 223 - Federal Communications Commission v. Woko, Inc. · 1946Most cited · 552 citing opinions
A denial of an application for a license because of the insufficiency or deliberate falsity of the information lawfully required to be furnished is not a penal measure. It may hurt and it may cause loss, but it is not made illegal, arbitrary or capricious by that fact.
How often courts cite the case defining “penal measure”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “penal measure” — 552 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.