And that's HUGE!
Whitesky tried to screw the judge over and submitted false information, now they will pay dearly.
Treble damages, in law, is a term that indicates that a statute permits a court to triple the amount of the actual/compensatory damages to be awarded to a prevailing plaintiff. "Treble" simply means "triple" in British English. The phrase "treble damages" survived the change from "treble" to "triple" in American English. Treble damages are a multiple of, and not an addition to, actual damages. Thus, where a person received an award of $100 for an injury, a court applying treble damages would raise the award to $300.[1] Some statutes mandate awards of treble damages for all violations. Examples of statutes with mandatory treble damages provisions are the Clayton Antitrust Act[2] and RICO.[3] Some statutes allow for an award of treble damages only if there is a showing that the violation was willful. For example, "up to three times the amount found or assessed" may be awarded by a court in the United States for willful patent infringement.[4] The idea behind the creation of such damages is that they will encourage citizens to sue for violations that are harmful to society in general.[5]