Second, there is no evidence that court employees were motivated to "subvert the Fourth Amendment or that lawlessness among these actors requires application of the extreme sanction of exclusion."

Nor did Justice Stevens think that the exclusionary rule was an extreme sanction, for there is nothing extreme about allowing the sovereign to profit from its "negligent misconduct."

They're threatening the guards with extreme sanctions if they're not allowed to pass!

"I am going to follow the law, which says that dismissal is too extreme a sanction," Judge Hoeveler said at today's hearing.

"It is an extreme sanction, suitable to the most extreme of crimes".

Expulsion is an extreme sanction which will rarely leave the continuing, innocent partners entirely unscathed.

But no-one had believed him capable of such extreme sanctions against his enemies.

Since the time of the apostles, the term 'anathema' has come to mean a form of extreme religious sanction, known as excommunication.

"Eviction is too extreme a sanction," said Steven Banks, a lawyer for the coalition.

The court therefore concluded that the adverse inference instruction is an 'extreme' sanction that should 'not be given lightly'...".