In Ellingburg v United States, to be argued on Oct. 14, the justices will consider whether the ex post facto clause of the Constitution applies to the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act, which entitles ...
The Supreme Court recently and unanimously held in Ellingburg v. United States[1] that restitution imposed under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996 (MVRA) qualifies as “criminal punishment” ...
WASHINGTON (CN) — A Georgia bank robber secured a Supreme Court review of his restitution appeal on Monday as the justices agreed to decide if a federal law retroactively punished a man by extending ...