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Originally Posted by manchambo
Technically, none of what you're talking about is punishment. The civil settlements will be restitution, the rest basically self inflicted wounds. To use the Ford example, the company would be subject to massive punitive damage awards, and to criminal penalties. I'm honestly not sure whether the NTSB could "de-list" a company. In the pharmaceutical area, if a company does something truly horrific, the FDA can de-list the company and refuse to accept any future applications to market drugs, essentially the death sentence in that area.
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A USC-like penalty is absolutely a punishment. And that in itself will be an enormous hit to Penn State financially.
And the thing to always remember is, the more you talk about additional financial punishments (which the death penalty is, in an indirect way), you have to consider who pays for it. The taxpayers do. So again... what point is being proven?