The fines paid by violators are supposed to pay off the $300 million in bonds that were sold to install E-ZPass on the Atlantic City Expressway, the Garden State Parkway and the New Jersey Turnpike.
Over the last year, the commission's Republican members have repeatedly maneuvered for 3-to-3 tie votes to block enforcement of campaign laws and even scuttle penalties already agreed to by violators from both parties.
Winders, a lawyer who is a plaintiff in the PETA-led lawsuit, said the lack of easy access to the records hampers the group's efforts to identify animals in abusive situations and has "completely stymied" her research for a law review article on recidivism by violators.
(c) Damages.— The court may assess as damages in a civil action under this section the sum of the actual damages suffered by the plaintiff and any profits made by the violator as a result of the violation, but in no case shall a person entitled to recover receive less than the sum of $1,000.
A smaller U.S. Victims of State-Sponsored Terrorism Fund is supported by fines paid by sanctions violators and is swamped by claimants.
Just ask the families of the 11 men hurled to their death off the TransOcean rig, or the relatives of the 29 miners killed a year ago this week at the Upper Big Branch mine owned by serial violator, Massey Energy in West Virginia.
It consists of 282 laws, including ones governing trade, slavery, theft, interest rates, the presumption of innocence and the principle of "eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," with graded punishments determined by the violator's social status.
We also discuss that in some cases, it is difficult to reconcile the different methodologies and that they often appear to be a means for backing into an amount based on other considerations the administrative law judge's perception of the fairness of the penalty in light of the totality of factors considered, such as the degree of culpability by the violator and the harm to investors.
And we must resist every effort by the abusers, by the violators, to "naturalize" this drive to violate.
