· 12/27/1994
United States v. James P. Heffernan
Citations
- 43 F.3d 1144
- 1994 U.S. App. LEXIS 36444
- 1994 WL 715091
How courts have described this case
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- interpreting U.S. Sentencing Guidelines’ definition of bid rig- ging and collecting cases in the criminal antitrust context
- “Considerations of (general) deterrence argue for punishing more heavily those offenses that either are lucrative or are difficult to detect and punish, since both attributes go to increase the expected benefits of a crime and hence the punishment required to deter it.”
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Judges: Posner, Engel, Easterbrook
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