FRANCIS

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• United States v. Limmie Lee Killough, 848 F.2d 1523 (11th Cir. 1988)
  …dules for 130 items, each voucher was a “claim” and thus ten $2,000 forfeiture were assessed against the defendant, not 130 forfeitures, one for each item listed on the schedules. See United States v. Grannis, 172 F. 2d 507 (4th Cir.), cert. denied, 337 U.S. 918, 69 S.Ct. 1160, 93 L.Ed. 1727 (1949). In the case at bar, if the fifty-two invoices were fraudulent, the government should have been awarded a total of $104,-000 in forfeitures. We are unable to determine, however, if the government carried its bur…
• Toepleman v. United States, 263 F.2d 697 (4th Cir. 1959)
  …ecovery, proof by a preponderance of the evidence instead of beyond a reasonable doubt. Helvering v. Mitchell, 1938, 303 U.S. 391, 400, note 3, 402, 58 S.Ct. 630, 82 L.Ed. 917; United States v. Grannis, 4 Cir., 1949, 172 F. 2d 507, certiorari denied 337 U.S. 918, 69 S.Ct. 1160, 93 L.Ed. 1727. Cognizance of civil punishments is found, too, in the procedural provisions of the United States Code Annotated. Thus, inter alia, in 28 U.S.C.A. we note: § 1355, jurisdiction of “action or proceeding for the recovery…
• Landaas v. Canister Co., 188 F.2d 768 (3d Cir. 1951)
  …nsider, therefore, the question of the extent to which, if at all, the amendments are retroactive. . Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co., 1946, 328 U.S. 680, 692; Frank v. Wilson & Co., 7 Cir., 1949, 172 F. 2d 712, 715, 716, certiorari denied 1949, 337 U.S. 918, 69 S.Ct. 1159, 1160, 93 L.Ed. 1727. . See generally Note, 44 ALR. 168 (1926). A reading of excerpts from the cases there collected lends considerable support to the statement that, “The maxim is so vague in itself as to form a very uncertain groun…