http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress Protecting Children and Their Neighborhoods Fri, 18 May 2012 17:30:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2012/05/02/5th-utah-law-prof-to-argue-apportionment-issue-in-child-porn-restitution-case/ http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2012/05/02/5th-utah-law-prof-to-argue-apportionment-issue-in-child-porn-restitution-case/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 17:58:11 +0000 admin http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/?p=2692 ULaw Today: The case involves an important issue of whether child pornography victims can recover all of their losses (e.g., psychological counseling and lost income) from one defendant or must apportion their losses out among multiple defendants. | USA v. Amy Unknown, No. 09-41238 (5th Cir.) Opening Brief]]> http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2012/05/02/5th-utah-law-prof-to-argue-apportionment-issue-in-child-porn-restitution-case/feed/ 0 http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2012/01/31/en-banc-5th-circuit-to-rehear-restitution-case-for-child-porn-victim/ http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2012/01/31/en-banc-5th-circuit-to-rehear-restitution-case-for-child-porn-victim/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:06:55 +0000 admin http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/?p=2669 How Appealing quotes and links to the AP and the earlier 5th Circuit opinion: A federal appeals court in New Orleans has agreed to rehear two cases in which a victim of child pornography sought restitution from men who viewed sexually explicit photographs of her on the Internet." | In re: Amy Unknown.]]> http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2012/01/31/en-banc-5th-circuit-to-rehear-restitution-case-for-child-porn-victim/feed/ 0 http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2011/11/28/supreme-court-refuses-to-resolve-confusion-over-child-pornography-law/ http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2011/11/28/supreme-court-refuses-to-resolve-confusion-over-child-pornography-law/#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:08:55 +0000 admin http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/?p=2656 Amy v. Monzel (11-85). ]]> http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2011/11/28/supreme-court-refuses-to-resolve-confusion-over-child-pornography-law/feed/ 0 http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2011/09/08/second-circuit-panel-reverses-child-porn-restitution-award-to-amy/ http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2011/09/08/second-circuit-panel-reverses-child-porn-restitution-award-to-amy/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:43:12 +0000 admin http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/?p=2623 Sentencing Law and Policy:: The Second Circuit has today issued an important new opinion in the on-going saga concerning whether and how the kids victimized by being featured in illegal child pornography can secure restitution awards from defendants who downloaded these pictures via the internet. The panel opinion in US v. Aumais, No. 10-3160 (2d Cir. Sept. 8, 2011) (available here), gets started this way . . . ]]> http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2011/09/08/second-circuit-panel-reverses-child-porn-restitution-award-to-amy/feed/ 0 http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2011/04/21/5th-circuit-restitution-to-child-porn-victim-not-limited-by-proximate-causation/ http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2011/04/21/5th-circuit-restitution-to-child-porn-victim-not-limited-by-proximate-causation/#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:28:04 +0000 admin http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/?p=2567 U.S. v. Wright, No. 09-31215 (5th Cir. Apr. 20, 2011) This appeal presents issues related to the amount of restitution that a district court may order a defendant convicted of possessing child pornography to pay to one of the children depicted in the images . . . As explained further below, the recent In re Amy panel opinion rejected the causation arguments made by Wright]]> http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2011/04/21/5th-circuit-restitution-to-child-porn-victim-not-limited-by-proximate-causation/feed/ 0 http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2011/04/19/d-c-circuit-child-pornography-victim-owed-more-restitution/ http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2011/04/19/d-c-circuit-child-pornography-victim-owed-more-restitution/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:36:18 +0000 admin http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/?p=2564 U.S. v. Monzel, No. 11-3008 (D.C. Cir. Apr. 19, 2011)]]> http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2011/04/19/d-c-circuit-child-pornography-victim-owed-more-restitution/feed/ 0 http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2010/08/04/nd-federal-court-rejects-mandatory-restitution-claim-against-receiver-of-pornographic-materials/ http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2010/08/04/nd-federal-court-rejects-mandatory-restitution-claim-against-receiver-of-pornographic-materials/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:03:31 +0000 admin http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/?p=2413 U.S. v. Solsbury, No. 4:09-cr-062, 2010 WL 3023913 (D.N.D. Aug. 4, 2010)]]> http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2010/08/04/nd-federal-court-rejects-mandatory-restitution-claim-against-receiver-of-pornographic-materials/feed/ 0 http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2010/05/19/ca-victim-of-child-pornography-awarded-2851-20/ http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2010/05/19/ca-victim-of-child-pornography-awarded-2851-20/#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 22:03:16 +0000 admin http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/?p=2321 U.S. v. Yang, No. 1:09-CR-00168 AWI, 2010 WL 2011561 (E.D. Cal. May 19. 2010)]]> http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2010/05/19/ca-victim-of-child-pornography-awarded-2851-20/feed/ 0 http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2010/02/16/law-review-creating-a-legal-remedy-for-victims-of-porn-2-0/ http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2010/02/16/law-review-creating-a-legal-remedy-for-victims-of-porn-2-0/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:51:24 +0000 admin http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/?p=1969 Sex, Privacy, and Webpages: Creating a Legal Remedy for Victims of Porn 2.0 Ariel Ronneburger, 21 Syracuse Sci. & Tech. L. Rep. 1 (2009) "This paper addresses this problem by proposing an amendment to the CDA, creating potential liability for service providers who fail to at least investigate claims of non-consented pornography."]]> http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2010/02/16/law-review-creating-a-legal-remedy-for-victims-of-porn-2-0/feed/ 0 http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2010/01/25/mo-ag-backs-plan-to-let-child-porn-victims-sue/ http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2010/01/25/mo-ag-backs-plan-to-let-child-porn-victims-sue/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:07:41 +0000 admin http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/?p=1907 http://www.communitydefense.org/wordpress/2010/01/25/mo-ag-backs-plan-to-let-child-porn-victims-sue/feed/ 0