On July 1, 2005, Selig suspended Texas Rangers pitcher Kenny Rogers for 20 games and fined him $ 50, 000.

: For a trivial offence, a free man shall be fined only in proportion to the degree of his offence, and for a serious offence correspondingly, but not so heavily as to deprive him of his livelihood.

The College accused a doctor of practicing without a license and fined him accordingly.

In July 2010, a man was charged under the Highway Act 1835 in Barnsley for riding his Segway on the pavement, which led to him being prosecuted and fined £ 75 in January 2011.

He comes to himself, and is taken for a thief ; but, the lady's maid giving the Signory to understand that she had put him in the chest which the usurers stole, he escapes the gallows, and the usurers are fined for the theft of the chest.

The US government fined Barnett $ 10, 000 and sentenced him to jail for contempt, but the charges were later dismissed by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Ziegler conducted a hearing on May 10, and suspended Schoenfeld for game five and fined him $ 1, 000 ; the Devils were fined $ 10, 000.

However, after Toney failed the post-match drug test ( for stanozolol, an anabolic steroid ), the New York Athletic Commission suspended him from boxing in the USA for 90 days, and fined him $ 10, 000 ( U. S .).

The next day in Tom's office, Roger is fined £ 250 by the Police but Tom tells him to forget it.

Albert Fall was found guilty of bribery in 1929 ; he was fined $ 100, 000 and sentenced to one year in prison, making him the first Presidential cabinet member to go to prison for his actions in office.

: For a trivial offence, a free man shall be fined only in proportion to the degree of his offence, and for a serious offence correspondingly, but not so heavily as to deprive him of his livelihood.

British Colonial authorities subsequently arrested Baker, fined him £ 25, and held him in jail until he paid his fine.

The case was tried in the Court of Session, which, on the 20 March 1683, fined Sir John Falconer and him £ 72, 000 sterling, a vast sum for the time.

Scargill was fined £ 1, 000 ( which was paid for him by an anonymous donor ), and the NUM was fined £ 200, 000.

The Commonwealth fined him £ 1631 sterling and he then went abroad, returning to Ireland at the request of the government, dated 2 January 1651.

The Football Association then increased the ban to eight months ( up to and including 30 September 1995 ) and fined him a further £ 10, 000.

Dante claims that Randal does nothing for him but make his life miserable by getting him fined, offending his customers, and ruining his relationship.

He was prosecuted for riot in connection with the surrender of the charter of Nottingham in 1682, and tried before George Jeffreys, who fined him 500 marks.

The judge fined him the small sum of £ 18. 60, which commentators theorized was a wry allusion to the year of the statute used to convict him.

However, in the process of keeping the team in the top division, Wolves and McCarthy were fined £ 25, 000 for fielding a weakened team for a fixture at Manchester United and thus breaking the Premier League rule E20.

In early 1998, when Botha refused to testify at the Mandela government's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, he was supported by the right-wing Conservative Party, which had earlier contested his rule, in his refusal and was fined and given a suspended jail sentence later that year.

He was criticized by Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren for the stunt, but was not fined, although the league quickly adopted a new rule banning players from carrying " foreign objects " with them on the field.

This provision featured in the important case of Boddington v British Transport Police ( 1998 ) where the House of Lords recognised the principle that a defendant in criminal proceedings, in this case the defendant was fined £ 10 for smoking on a train in violation of a railway byelaw, could challenge the validity of the rule before a court, save where Parliament has indicated that such a challenge is not possible.

After three years without a pitch invasion, a school will have the pitch invasion rule reset to one, meaning that the next pitch invasion will be declared a second violation, and the school will be fined $ 25, 000.

Because of this rule violation, the Braves were fined $ 100, 000 and prohibited from scouting and signing players from the Dominican Republic for six months in 2000.

Welker was fined $ 10, 000 by the NFL for celebrating a December 21 touchdown against the Arizona Cardinals by lying down in the snow by the endzone and using his body to make a snow angel, violating a recent NFL rule change making going to ground after a touchdown unsportsmanlike conduct.

Drivers who fail to utilise their meters may be fined up to S $ 500, an enforced rule which brings fare disputes down to a minimum.

In Britain, the Witchcraft Act of 1735 established that people could not be punished for consorting with spirits, while would-be magicians pretending to be able to invoke spirits could still be fined as con artists.

Still, if the dog has vicious propensities and the owner still allows it to run at large and a person is bitten, the owner can be fined for up to $ 1, 000 and is also liable for 6 months of prison unless the victim has abused the dog and provoked the harmful behavior.

On December 19, 2005, while he was still with the Dallas Mavericks, Armstrong was fined $ 1, 000 for grabbing a microphone before a Mavs game against the Minnesota Timberwolves at the American Airlines Center and yelling " How ' bout those Redskins!

Two years later, while still with the Broncos, he was fined a total of $ 42, 500 for three illegal hits plus a punch thrown at Kansas City Chiefs tight end Tony Gonzalez, and was also fined an undisclosed amount for throwing a football at Bryan Cox of the New York Jets, the ball hitting him in the crotch area.

The Randolph station is still on the air six years after being fined $ 10, 000.

Air Transat accepted responsibility for the incident and was fined CAD 250, 000 by the Canadian government, which is still the largest fine in Canadian history.

One approach to the Clough is from Michael Wife Lane, named after Mary Nuttall, wife of Michael Nuttall, who was fined in 1618 for not maintaining the road and, finally, put in the stocks in 1624 for still not carrying out this work.

4. And be it further enacted, That if any person, by force, bribery, threats, intimidation, or other unlawful means, shall hinder, delay, prevent, or obstruct, or shall combine and confederate with others to hinder, delay, prevent, or obstruct, any citizen from doing any act required to be done to qualify him to vote or from voting at any election as aforesaid, such person shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby, to be recovered by an action on the case, with full costs, and such allowance for counsel fees as the court shall deem just, and shall also for every such offence be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not less than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not less than one month and not more than one year, or both, at the discretion of the court .”

" USANext was eventually fined $ 554, 000 for two such mailings, violating a 1988 amendment to the Social Security Act in 1988 prohibiting the private use of the phrase " Social Security " and several related terms in any way that would convey a false impression of approval from the Social Security Administration.

Five years later at the same stadium, Wildcats fans invaded the field after avenging the loss with a win, and the school was fined $ 50, 000 for a third violation of the conference's policy prohibiting pitch invasions ( see above ).

Jehovah's Witnesses in Bulgaria have been fined for proselytizing without proper government permits, and some municipalities have legislation prohibiting or restricting their rights to preach.

Despite a formal request to the AFL being denied, players wore yellow armbands for the match which resulted in the club being fined $ 20, 000.

In March 2004, the European Commission in the European Union Microsoft antitrust case fined Microsoft € 497 million and ordered the company to provide a version of Windows without Windows Media Player, claiming Microsoft " broke European Union competition law by leveraging its near monopoly in the market for PC operating systems onto the markets for work group server operating systems and for media players ".

Found guilty of making payments to players in excess of the maximum wage, they were fined £ 5, 000 (£ today ), and their chairman and three directors were suspended.

In March 1982 a violent brawl between the Regina Pats and Calgary Wranglers saw the two teams collectively fined $ 2250 and players suspended for 73 games combined.

In 1975, the Cleveland Indians of the American League held a kangaroo court where players were fined one dollar for silly offenses, and the New York Yankees players have held several such mock " courts " in their clubhouse throughout the team's history.

Local newspaper stories have noted their activities, which have included raising funds for players fined by the CFL or the team, as well as tailgating more than 12 hours before game time ( uncommon in CFL cities ) with players and coaches frequently dropping by before or after the game.

On March 14, after consulting with Tigers management, Calder declared the Canadiens league champions and fined the Tigers ' players $ 200.

The players were each fined two weeks ' wages ; Houllier, however, claimed that the incident had not affected team morale.

" Both players were consequently fined ($ 500 ) and reprimanded by the match referee, with Harbhajan also suspended for a single ODI as he was adjudged to have breached the ICC Cricket Code of Conduct.

Under the ICC regulations, players may be fined a percentage of the salary, banned for number of matches, or even banned for a number of years or life.

The split in rugby in 1895 between what became rugby league and rugby union arose as a direct result of a dispute over the pretence of a strict enforcement of its amateur status-clubs in Leeds and Bradford were fined after compensating players for missing work, whilst at the same time the Rugby Football Union ( RFU ) was allowing other players to be paid.

" After he found out about the Edwin Starr session, Gordy fined members of the Funk Brothers band for moonlighting for another label ; Eddie Wingate, owner of the Golden World label that released Starr's " Agent Double-O Soul ", subsequently attended that year's Motown staff Christmas party and personally gave each of the fined session players double the amount of the fine in cash, on the spot.

Rather than talk to the players, he suspended and fined them $ 200 each.

All three players have since released apology statements, and were all fined two weeks wages.

A few years before in 1998, Australian players Mark Waugh and Shane Warne were fined for revealing information about the ' weather ' to a bookmaker.

In 2001, Mike Denness banned Virender Sehwag for one Test and fined a number of other Indian players for charging at the umpire ( intimidation ) and overappealling in a Test against South Africa, sparking a diplomatic incident, after the Indian board then had Denness locked out of the stadium for the next match and replaced.

" On 23 September 2001, Lampard, along with three other Chelsea players was fined two weeks wages by the club for his behaviour whilst on a drinking binge on 12 September.

The incidents led to record penalties from the AFL Tribunal, with five players suspended for a combined total of 16 matches and players involved in the melee fined a combined total of A $ 70, 700, the most from a single match in VFL / AFL history.