A federal judge ruled that Paroline was not liable for Amy’s restitution because there was no proof he contributed to her abuse, but a federal appeals court judge decided the opposite way and ordered Paroline to pay $3.4 million.
SCOTUS Decision Issued in Paroline v. U.S. Today
Child pornography victims are routinely harmed by thousands of perpetrators many of whom are never identified, let alone prosecuted. It places a significant burden on courts, the government, and victims to try to calculate the relative harms caused by each…
SCOTUS limits the amount of money child porn victims can get from people who possess it
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…
Law & Order: SVU – Restitution at Last
Last night NBC’s Law & Order: SVU aired an episode about our firm’s effort to obtain compensation for victims of child pornography called Downloaded Child. This clip, Restitution at Last, should sound familiar to anyone who has been following our…