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I honestly don't want to make this political and I'm not a libertarian. But this reminds me of something a libertarian once said. That courts would find companies liable for their crimes and someone would go to jail.

My question: Why isn't someone going to jail, when they have clearly broken a law?

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> My question: Why isn't someone going to jail, when they have clearly broken a law?

Because the law in question is civil, not criminal, and because the violation was found by an executive branch administrative law judge, not by a court of general jurisdiction in even a civil lawsuit.

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