United States Ninth Circuit

A judgment of civil penalties and treble damages, for submission of false Medicare claims, was not grossly proportional to the gravity of the offense under the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/15/2003
• Decided 08/12/2003
• Published 08/12/2003

Judges

• Before:  HAWKINS and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges, and KING, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Patric Hooper,Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, Los Angeles, California, for the defendant-appellant., Sara Winslow, Office of the United States Attorney, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.