Ordinarily someone held in contempt would be hit with huge fines, or jailed. Orangieboi was fined $9000, which is the equivalent of you being fined 1/100th of a penny.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

1000 is the maximum fine they can give per instance.

Think he got hit with 9. Most people would have gotten the "up to 30 days in jail" by now though.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

In addition to the fines. $9000 to an ordinary person is a huge sum of money. To a billionaire, it's not even their lunch meal bill.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

If the fine is a fixed amount like that, the law is saying that poor people will be punished while rich people won't.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 6 months ago

Most fines in US law are like that.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago