Sentence examples for courts fined from inspiring English sources
In 2000, French courts fined Yahoo and ordered it to block access to auctions of Nazi memorabilia.
In February American courts fined KBR, a construction firm, and Halliburton, its former parent, $579m over bribes paid to obtain contracts in Nigeria.
The Norwegian courts fined Hamsun four hundred and twenty-five thousand kroner (then about eighty-seven thousand dollars), and he was allowed to return to Nørholm, where he went into a slow, steady decline.
The courts fined him only £1 and placed him on a bond.
The court fined the actor Adel Imam about $170 and gave him a suspended sentence.
But a Swiss court fined Davos officials for banning demonstrations during last year's forum.
The court fined the gallery, its founder, Frank Lloyd, and the estate's executors more than $9 million.
Last month a French court fined the group nearly $900,000 for fraud.
In 2012, a Darwin court fined the company $510,000 for the spill.
Stefano Gabbana of Dolce & Gabbana goes on a Twitter rant after an Italian court fined them $440 million for tax evasion.
When a French court fined Scientology nearly a million dollars, one of its officials shrugged that off as "chump change".
