Restitution

California Federal District Court Reinstates Order In Overdraft Class Action

by BuckleySandler LLP on 5/23/2013

On May 14, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California reinstated a prior order enjoining a national bank from engaging in false or misleading representations relating to certain overdraft practices and...more

Short Wins - It's A Relatively Good Week For The Constitution

by Matthew G. Kaiser | The Kaiser Law Firm PLLC on 3/5/2013

It's a good week in the federal circuits for folks accused of a crime. Instead of the all-too-common diet of sentencing remands, there are some nice wins on our rights against unreasonable searches and seizures and...more

Health Care Fraud Restitution Amounts Can't Be Set On Just An Insurance Company Saying It Would Like A Lot Of Money

by Matthew G. Kaiser | The Kaiser Law Firm PLLC on 1/25/2013

Two doctors, married to each other, were accused of health care fraud. They pled guilty and fought at sentencing about the amount of the restitution that they would have to pay back to the insurance companies for what they...more

Patton Boggs Reinsurance Newsletter - December 2012: Connecticut Appellate Court Rules That a Commutation Agreement Terminated...

by Patton Boggs LLP on 1/15/2013

Trenwick Am. Reinsurance Corp. v. W.R. Berkley Corp., 54 A.3d 209 (Conn. App. Ct. 2012). A Connecticut appellate court affirmed a trial court judgment holding that an agreement between the reinsurer and the cedent...more

Ninth Circuit Vacates Restitution Order In Overdraft Ordering Case, Allows State Fraud Claims To Proceed

by BuckleySandler LLP on 1/10/2013

On December 26, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that a national bank’s practice of posting payments to checking accounts in a particular order is a federally authorized pricing decision, and that federal...more

Court Rules That Ohio Bureau Of Workers' Compensation Overcharged Non-Group Rated Employers

by Fisher & Phillips LLP on 1/10/2013

After a long bench trial which began on August 20, 2012, Judge Richard McMonagle recently issued his decision in an important class-action lawsuit. The suit was brought on behalf of certain employers doing business in Ohio,...more

IP Update, Vol. 15, No. 12, December 2012

In This Issue: Patents - ..Federal Circuit Rules It’s Own Standards Apply When Considering Preliminary Injunctions ..Preliminary Testing of Medical Devices in Animals Enables Their Use in...more

A CFPB Christmas carol: first coordinated action with states

by Keith R. Fisher | Ballard Spahr LLP on 12/28/2012

In the first action of its kind since the agency’s creation, the CFPB, Attorneys General from New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, and Wisconsin, and the Hawaii Office of Consumer Protection joined forces to enjoin a...more

Short Wins - Mayan Apocalypse Edition; The World Didn't End, But There Are New Cases On Restitution, Health Care Fraud, Federal...

by Matthew G. Kaiser | The Kaiser Law Firm PLLC on 12/26/2012

One would have thought that, with the end of the world predicted for Friday of last week, our nation's appellate courts would have spent their last week on Earth with family or friends, rather than cranking out wins for folks...more

The Eleventh Circuit Discusses When The Government Can Take Your Wife's Stuff To Make Resitution For A Crime You Committed

by Matthew G. Kaiser | The Kaiser Law Firm PLLC on 12/20/2012

When a person is convicted of a federal crime, especially in a fraud case, but in lots of other kinds of federal criminal cases too, the district court sometimes also orders that the person pay restitution....more

Does The Victims Of Corporate Fraud Compensation Fund Deny Due Process?

by Keith Paul Bishop | Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis... on 12/19/2012

In notorious defiance of the California Constitution, the legislature in 2002 established the Victims of Corporate Fraud Compensation Fund. See Victims of Corporate Fraud. The purpose of the fund is to provide ”restitution to...more

A Federal Judge Can't Reopen A Sentencing Hearing, Even When There's $17 million In Restitution At Stake

by Matthew G. Kaiser | The Kaiser Law Firm PLLC on 12/14/2012

It's hard, when things go wrong, not to seek a mulligan. And we all get off on the wrong foot sometimes. When a case is in front of a federal judge for sentencing, though, a mulligan is only very rarely...more

Lenny Dykstra Gets Six Months for Bankruptcy Fraud

by Aaron Kase | Lawyers.com on 12/6/2012

Baseball star-cum would-be financial magnate Lenny Dykstra was sentenced to six-and-a-half months in prison this week for hiding assets from his bankruptcy estate....more

D.C. Circuit: Restitution Order Must Involve Victim’s Loss, Not Defendant’s Gain

by Jeff Ifrah on 12/5/2012

On November 9, 2012, in a unanimous opinion in United States v. Fair, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found that the district court had abused its discretion in ordering restitution in the amount of $743,000 in...more

Short Wins - Remands On The Fourth Amendment, Restitution, Fines, Sales of Parts of Golden Eagles, and What You Need to Know To...

by The Kaiser Law Firm PLLC on 12/3/2012

I strongly suspect that many of our nation's circuit court judges worked over the Thanksgiving break, because they're back with nine wins for folks accused of crimes in our nation's federal appellate courts. It's a...more

Short Wins - A Few Things Happened Before Thanksgiving

by The Kaiser Law Firm PLLC on 11/28/2012

After yesterday's heady news from the ABA Law Journal, I completely neglected to, you know, actually blog. Apologies. Here are brief treatments of the wins from the week with Thanksgiving in it. Like Thanksgiving...more

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