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Restitution is available in equity to recover money previously paid to satisfy a court judgment that is later reversed, as the Supreme Court held in Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Florida, 295 U.S. 301 (1935). However, the Court therefore noted that equitable defenses are available where it would not be fair to require the money to be returned.
Restitution often involves replacement of stolen or damaged property or reimbursement of costs that the victim incurred as a result of the crime. A court is required under current state law to order full restitution unless it finds compelling and extraordinary reasons not to do so. [38] Sometimes, however, judges do not order restitution.
Disgorgement is the act of giving up something on demand or by legal compulsion, for example giving up profits that were obtained illegally. [1]In United States regulatory law, disgorgement is often a civil remedy imposed by some regulatory agencies to seize illegally obtained profits.
Chavez 2018 has ruled there is no judgement of conviction. If a person is granted probation, the court can impose many conditions on a grant of probation (conditions of probations are not sentences), including up to one year in county jail, money fines up to the maximum allowed by state law, and restitution to the victim for actual losses. [17]
According to a court transcript, Bailey is “enjoining” the NCAA from applying its rule of restitution, which means it can’t penalize players who participate when the TRO is in effect.
Feds seek more than $340,000 from Sherri Papini over a September 2022 restitution order from her kidnap hoax.
The U.S. Constitution takes priority over the California constitution so courts may still be obliged to exclude evidence under the federal Bill of Rights. In practice the law prevented the California courts from interpreting the state constitution so as to impose an exclusionary rule more strict than that required by the federal constitution. [3]
In California, an abstract of judgment is a document transmitted by a superior court to a county sheriff after entry of a judgment of conviction in a criminal action. [4] The abstract summarizes the crimes of which the defendant was convicted, and all sentences and enhancements imposed for those crimes (including whether those various ...