Legal Opinion
United States v. Robert E. Meyer
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 14, 1987No. 86-1731PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The sole.issue to be decided in this appeal is whether the five-year statute of limitations for enforcement of civil penalties, 28 U.S.C. § 2462, as applied to sanctions imposed under the Export Administration Act’s antiboycott regulations, is triggered on the date the predicate violation occurs or on the date the penalty is subsequently imposed. Reluctant though we may be to create a split among the circuits, we adopt the latter view and therefore reverse the district court.
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