Rex Trailer Co. v. United States

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• recognizing that intangible and immeasurable costs to the government are appropriate considerations in determining whether a sanction is remedial or punitive
• recognizing that intangible and immeasurable costs to the government are appropriate considerations in determining whether a sanction is remedial or punitive
• recognizing market and societal costs resulting from wrongdoing and avoidance of unjust enrichment as remedial purposes
• holding that the “Government has the right to make contracts and hold and dispose of property, and, for the protection of its property rights, it may resort to the same remedies as a private person”
• stating that the civil sanction imposed in that case might serve to avoid unjust enrichment
• ruling with respect to a liquidated damages \type\ provision, that the uncertainty as to the exact amount of damages did not transform the sanction's remedial character

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).