If the fine is a fixed amount like that, the law is saying that poor people deserve to be punished while rich people don’t.
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Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 months agoOrdinarily someone held in contempt would be hit with huge fines, or jailed. Orangieboi was fined $9000, which is the equivalent of you being fined 1/100th of a penny.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
silence7@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
Most fines in US law are like that.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Lmaydev@programming.dev 7 months ago
1000 is the maximum fine they can give. Most people would have got the “up to 30 days in jail” by now though.
muse@fedia.io 7 months ago
This is hit 10
Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
In addition to the fines. $9000 to an ordinary person is a huge sum of money. To a billionaire, it’s not even their lunch meal bill.