mandatory-victims-restitution-act

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A781 Joquetta Riley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-06 Application conspiracy joint-and-several-liability mail-fraud mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution vicarious-liability Does the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA) of 1996 — as codified within 18 U.S.C. § 3663A — allow courts to confer vicarious restitution liabil…
23-585 John Duncan Fordham v. Georgia Department of Administrative Services, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure equity equity-doctrine jurisdictional-challenge mandatory-victims-restitution-act money-had-and-received presidential-pardon restitution restitution-funds Do funds collected under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act vest in a claimant or are they subject to recoupment after a Presidential Pardon?
22-1197 Jon Lawrence Frank v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Response Waived 401k-plan consumer-credit-protection-act employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa garnishment lump-sum-distribution mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution retirement-plan-benefits Whether ERISA precludes garnishment of 401(k) plan to satisfy restitution order
22-583 Evan Greebel v. United States Second Circuit 2022-12-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights compensatory-payments consumer-credit-protection-act consumer-protection due-process earnings-definition garnishment garnishment-limitations mandatory-victims-restitution-act statutory-interpretation Whether lump-sum compensatory payments to an individual, such as those made pursuant to a retirement plan, qualify as 'earnings' subject to the CCPA's…
22-5399 John Afriyie v. United States Second Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorneys-fees circuit-split corporate-expenses criminal-procedure criminal-restitution mandatory-victims-restitution-act noscitur-a-sociis restitution statutory-interpretation Whether Section (b)(4) of the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act limits restitution for 'necessary ... other expenses' to out-of-pocket expenses simila…
21-6710 Prince Charles Nana Yaw Owusu Boateng v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy count-of-conviction court-of-appeals criminal-restitution loss-calculation mandatory-victims-restitution-act pattern-of-criminal-activity restitution scheme sentencing Whether a court can impose restitution beyond the loss resulting from the conduct related to the count of conviction under the Mandatory Victims Resti…
21-5930 Albert M. Ranieri v. Vicky Moser, Warden Third Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3613(b) ex-post-facto mandatory-victims-restitution-act mvra plea-agreement restitution restitution-order sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation victim-witness-protection-act vwpa Is the VWPA or MVRA the controlling law regarding payment of the Order of Restitution, and is the Ex Post Facto Clause being violated?
21-58 Sassine Razzouk v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response Waived categorical-approach circuit-split lagos-v-united-states mandatory-victims-restitution-act offense-against-property property-offense restitution-obligation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Whether courts should apply the categorical approach in determining if an offense is an 'offense against property' under the MVRA?
19-8807 Cassandra Cean v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP circuit-split criminal-liability eighth-amendment intervening-cause mandatory-victims-restitution-act proximate-cause sixth-amendment Whether proximate causation under the MVRA must be analyzed by the use of the 'middle road approach' or the 'created circumstance approach'
19-6511 Roberto Trinidad Del Carpio Frescas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fifth-circuit mandatory-victims-restitution-act preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence reliable-evidence restitution restitution-standard sentencing What is the meaning of 'reliable evidence' for establishing the amount of restitution under the Mandatory Victim's Restitution Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3663A?
19-5336 John S. Benchick v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-reporting due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct mandatory-victims-restitution-act prosecutorial-misconduct restitution right-to-appeal trial-record trial-transcript unbiased-prosecutor witness-testimony Does the Defendant have a right to a true and correct record of his trial
18-7122 Jeffrey Thomas Gola v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP ability-to-pay Ability-to-pay-restitution BOP-jurisdiction-over-payment-plan bureau-of-prisons Consideration-of-18-USC-3664-factors constitutional-liberties Delegation-of-authority-to-BOP financial-responsibility mandatory-victims-restitution-act payment-schedule plain-error Plain-error-in-restitution-order restitution restitution-payment Is the BOP's Financial Responsibility Program voluntary when constitutional liberties are taken for non-participation?
18-6738 Jonathone J. Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-law-and-procedure criminal-law-procedure de-novo-review due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-victims-restitution-act presumption remand restitution sentencing Whether Petitioner was entitled to a de novo resentencing hearing relative to his challenges to the restitution order following remand from the Sixth …
18-6481 Jeremy Fontanez v. Joseph Coakley, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2241 bureau-of-prisons circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment inmate-financial-responsibility-program mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution restitution-order voluntary Does the sentencing court violate the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA) when it delegates its restitution payments to the BOP?
18-195 William S. Poff v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-14 GVR exemption exemptions federal-seizure-law government-seizure incarceration-payments mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution restitution-enforcement seizure service-connected-disability statutory-exemption statutory-interpretation substantial-resources veterans-disability-benefits Whether veterans disability benefits paid to an incarcerated individual constitute 'substantial resources' that can be seized under the Mandatory Vict…
18-29 Shailendra Bhawnani, et al. v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied criminal-procedure criminal-restitution fraud judicial-discretion legal-scope mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution statutory-interpretation victim-compensation victim-definition Whether the definition of 'victim' under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act, 18 U.S.C. 3663A(a)(2), includes all victims directly and proximately h…