victim-compensation
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6936 | Matthew Lee Pelton v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-2259 appellate-review criminal-restitution ninth-circuit sentencing victim-compensation | The question for this Court's review is whether "quality of life losses" and "productivity losses" are properly awarded as criminal restitution pursua… |
| 25A679 | Matthew Lee Pelton v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-09 | Application | criminal-statute ninth-circuit pecuniary-damages restitution statutory-interpretation victim-compensation | Question not identified. | |
| 24-458 | Laurie Weinlein v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-10-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-sentencing ex-post-facto legislative-extension restitution retroactive-application victim-compensation | Whether the retroactive enlargement of a restitution liability period violates the Ex Post Facto Clause. |
| 23-6577 | Vahe Dadyan and Artur Ayvazyan, aka Arthur Ayvazyan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-restitution proportional-punishment reasonably-foreseeable restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-compensation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3663A (Mandatory restitution to victims of certain crimes) which imposes restitution for losses "directly and proximately" caused … |
| 23-6235 | John S. Romero, aka John Silva Romero v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bargained-for-product district-court embezzlement federal-question health-care health-care-embezzlement insurance-coverage restitution victim-compensation victims | Should this Court grant the petition for writ of certiorari to resolve the important federal question of whether a district court may award restitutio… |
| 22-7683 | Michael Dewayne Alfred v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2259 causal-role causation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum victim-compensation | When imposing restitution under 18 U.S.C. § 2259(b)(2), does the district court's restitution order exceed the statutory maximum when that court fails… |
| 19-7589 | Michael M. Monzel v. United States | District of Columbia | 2020-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-restitution paroline-factors proximate-cause restitution-methodology sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-compensation | 1. Whether — in the context of a criminal restitution request on behalf of a victim of child pornography — § 2259/ Paroline requires disaggregation of… |
| 19-6554 | Brandon Gregory Leal v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apportionment criminal-procedure judicial-procedure paroline-analysis paroline-v-united-states plain-error proximate-cause restitution victim-compensation | Whether failure to conduct a proximate cause and apportionment analysis as required by this Court's decision in Paroline v. United States, 572 U.S. 43… |
| 18-759 | Matthew D. Sample v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-12-14 | Denied | Amici (3) | criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-authority district-court-discretion imprisonment income-earning probation restitution sentencing-discretion victim-compensation | Whether a district court may reduce a prison sentence, or impose a probationary term in lieu of imprisonment, to enable a defendant to earn income to … |
| 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… |