This Wednesday morning, SCOTUS voted to put a limit on the amount of restitution that people who consume child pornography pay the victims of child pornography. Surprisingly, the court was mostly not divided between “putting a limit on restitution” and…
Law in Plain English: Paroline v. United States
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that restitution is proper under the statute only to the extent that the defendant’s offense proximately caused a victim’s losses.
US Supreme Court limits restitution payments to child pornography victims
In a 5-to-4 decision, the high court said federal law does not require a defendant guilty of possessing child pornography to pay the entire amount of a multimillion-dollar restitution award owed to a child victim whose abuse is depicted in…
Allegations of a botched UVA rape investigation at center of a challenge to the Campus SaVE Act
Filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. on March 6, the suit is intended as a landmark civil rights action that could derail the controversial Campus Sexual Violence Elimination (SaVE) Act, according to Doe’s attorney James Marsh. Touted as a…
Op Ed: Paroline Raises Difficult Questions for Supreme Court
JURIST Guest Columnist Warren Binford of Willamette University College of Law argues that the US Supreme Court should hold individual possessors of child pornography liable for the full damages allowed under the Violence Against Women Act first to help victims…
Opinion: Paying a price for child pornography
Sometimes, justice requires being fair even to those who don’t deserve it. And justice in this case means rejecting the argument that Paroline must pay for all his fellow criminals.