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Restitution can take the form of a personal or a proprietary remedy. Where a personal remedy is awarded, the defendant is ordered to pay the money value of the benefit received. This personal money award is the typical form of restitution ordered.
Restitution – Victims may be awarded payments as a way to compensate them for losses, either through direct payments for individuals or through payments into a general fund. These may cover the cost of things such as lost wages, medical costs, or property damage.
Such an issue may also be referred to the Texas Supreme Court by certified question, [5] but this procedure is rarely employed. Like the members of the Texas Supreme Court and the Court of Criminal Appeals, the Justices of the intermediate Texas Courts of Appeals are elected in partisan elections to six-year terms. Some, however, are initially ...
The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday evening also denied a request to stay the execution, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor writing in her ruling that the "Supreme Court is powerless to act without a ...
The 18 month pretrial intervention agreement will allow Paxton to walk away from the yearslong case with no charges if he meets the deal's requirements, which include serving 100 hours of ...
The pardon is conditional and preserves Cunningham's court-ordered obligation to pay off the $3.6 million in restitution and forfeiture. [117] Trump's pardon of Cunningham was condemned by the federal prosecutors who led the case, as well as others. [117] January 13, 2021: Paul Erickson: District of South Dakota: July 6, 2020
Equitable remedies are distinguished from "legal" remedies (which are available to a successful claimant as of right) by the discretion of the court to grant them. In common law jurisdictions, there are a variety of equitable remedies, but the principal remedies are: injunction [5] [6] specific performance; account of profits; rescission ...
In 2021, Abbott signed into law the “Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act,” which the Texas legislature unanimously passed to ban Texas governmental entities and businesses from entering ...