SCOTUS case could hike financial damages for child porn victims

Al Jazeera America

But as victims' advocates say, courts have had difficulty interpreting how that statute should be applied, and it was a question the U.S. Supreme Court considered on Wednesday in connection with Amy's case. At stake is the concept of "joint and several liability," in which multiple participants in a crime - in Amy's case, there are perhaps thousands - can be required to pay the entire amount of restitution to a victim, regardless of whether the offender played a large or small role.