The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St. Louis has received the final reply brief filed on behalf of Austin (Jack) DeCoster and his son, Peter DeCoster, by their legal team led by Peter D. Keisler. Keisler and his colleagues from the prominent Washington, D.C., law firm of Sidley Austin LLP, are appealing the DeCoster’s three-month jail sentences imposed this past April by U.S. District Court Judge Mark Bennett in Sioux City, IA. If successful, the appeal could also end the government’s power to use prison time to punish so-called supervisory liability offenses by corporate officials.
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