The phrase "a nominal fine" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a small or insignificant penalty, often in a legal or regulatory context.
Example: "The company was issued a nominal fine for the minor violation of safety regulations."
Alternatives: "a minimal penalty" or "a token fine".
The accusation that his department "and Duke Energy got together and made some smoky back-room deal with a nominal fine is simply not true," Mr. Skvarla told reporters.
Another way of getting the money, however, would be to penalize Cargill (in this instance), not by slapping their wrists with a nominal fine but by one amounting to tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars.
She filed a civil suit, which she eventually withdrew, but Mayweather pleaded guilty to two counts of misdemeanor battery, and was given a suspended sentence, along with a nominal fine of three thousand dollars, some community service, and two days of house arrest.
One way out of the imbroglio, suggests a Japanese diplomat, might be for the government to ask prosecutors to impose a nominal fine on the captain and release him.Even if popular nationalism in China so far appears in check (except online), there are concerns in Asia that China's leadership is becoming more assertive over its far-flung maritime interests.
I refused to pay even a nominal fine and ultimately beat the bureaucrats.
Worse still, Gruber's model doesn't adequately account for the law's central feature: its requirement that insurers take on all comers, regardless of pre-existing conditions, while only weakly enforcing a nominal fine on those individuals who try to game the system.
This compares to a nominal £100 fine – or even just citizenship classes – for any woman caught covering her face.
The public health measure in Jacobson met these standards — it compelled smallpox vaccination during an outbreak or required payment of a nominal monetary fine for those who refused to comply without a legitimate reason.
The reporters agreed with the government that they are in contempt, but had sought a "nominal monetary fine" and other punishment "short of full-blown incarceration," including house arrest and weekend jailing, according to court documents.
The coins were issued contrary to British law, and in April 1930 a nominal fine was imposed on Harman.
For Walmart, more significant than the nominal fine itself would be the ramifications if the fine were upheld.
