Topic
Restitution
423 published works
Employment & Labor
Employers Deserve Equity Too: Restitution for Overpayments to Plan
It is not an issue that arises every day, but it is worth exploring an employer’s remedies when it contributes too much into an ERISA plan. A recent decision in…
Employment & Labor
Employers Deserve Equity Too: Restitution for Overpayments to Plan
It is not an issue that arises every day, but it is worth exploring an employer’s remedies when it contributes too much into an ERISA plan. A recent decision in…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Three decades and huge (record?) restitution sentence in federal child porn case from Texas
Main December 20, 2012Three decades and huge (record?) restitution sentence in federal child porn case from Texas A helpful reader alerted me to what seems like a record-setting sentence handed…
PropertyProf Blog
The Wheels of Restitution Turn Slowly, If at All
By propertyprof
Two weeks ago a conference was held in Prague on the restitution of property expropriated from Jews in Europe during the World War II era. The conference came three years after another…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Seventh Circuit rejects extendingSouthern Unionto restitution based on (minority) view it is not a criminal penalty
Main December 5, 2012Seventh Circuit rejects extending Southern Union to restitution based on (minority) view it is not a criminal penaltyThe Seventh Circuit handed down a panel opinion today in…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Fourth Circuit rejects argument thatSouthern Unionlimits judicial fact-finding for restitution awards
Main November 29, 2012Fourth Circuit rejects argument that Southern Union limits judicial fact-finding for restitution awardsImmediately following the Supreme Court's opinion in Southern Union (basics here and here) this past…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Seventh Circuit (per Judge Posner) talks through challenging child porn restitution issues
Main November 14, 2012Seventh Circuit (per Judge Posner) talks through challenging child porn restitution issues The Seventh Circuit has a lengthy and intricate child pornography sentencing opinion today in US…
PropertyProf Blog
Alexander on The Complexities of Land Reparations
By propertyprof
Greg Alexander (Cornell) has posted The Complexities of Land Reparations on SSRN. Here's the abstract:The question whether unjust dispossessions of land perpetrated on whole peoples in the past should be…
The Faculty Lounge
The Future of Reparations
Greg Alexander of Cornell Law School has just posted a paper on "The Complexities of Land Reparations." And a lot of what he has to say applies to reparations more…
Other
WELL-PRESERVED 17TH CENTURY NATIONAL TREASURES RECOVERED IN POLAND
Record low water levels in Warsaw's Vistula River due in part to heat waves and droughts last month have made accessible looted valuable 17th century marble and alabaster decorative structures from the riverbed. Police, archaeologists,…