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'Moral' Obligation to Adult Child Found No Bar to Restitution

In this age of corporate greed, the courts are faced with many new issues surrounding restitution. The appeal of Bernard Jaffe Jr. gave the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals its first opportunity to define the term "dependent" under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996, which requires district courts to order restitution to compensate victims for their losses "without consideration of the economic circumstances of the defendant."

8 minute read October 31, 2005 at 08:53 AM
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'Moral' Obligation to Adult Child Found No Bar to Restitution

In this age of corporate greed, the courts are faced with many new issues surrounding restitution.

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