Eckhart v. Department of Agriculture

How courts have described this case

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• “If a sentence imposed is within the statutory limits, there is no abuse of discretion unless the sentence is manifestly excessive so as to inflict too severe a punishment.”
• “we cannot conclude that the penalties were excessive, unreasonable, or disproportionate to the severity of the offenses in violation of the Eighth Amendment” where they were “calculated based upon specific guidelines established by Section 211(c

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).