Stiffler v. Hydroblend, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an agency’s choice of sanction should be overturned only if “unwarranted in law or ... without justification in fact”
• reducing $4.15 million penalty based on gross revenues to $700,000 penalty based on net profits
• noting the fundamental principle that “where Congress has entrusted an administrative agency with the responsibility of selecting the means of achieving the statutory policy the relation of remedy to policy is peculiarly a matter for administrative competence”
• holding sanctions are imposed on a case-by-case basis
• reversing Eighth Circuit ruling that agency erred in imposing a larger penalty than previously imposed in similar circumstances by concluding that appellate court applied the wrong standard of review and improperly substituted its opinion for that of the agency
• “‘Wilfully’ could refer to either intentional conduct or conduct that was merely careless or negligent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).