A painting by French master Nicolas Poussin, stolen by Nazi soldiers from its French Jewish owners in 1944, has been found in Italy and returned to its rightful owners, Italian police said on Thursday.
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An appeals court in Pennsylvania ruled the lower court properly calculated restitution for a defendant who stole a coin collection and sold it to support his drug habit. The criminal information originally noted the coins were worth around $2,000, but the court set restitution at their acquisition cost of $86,974.
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The Los Angeles County Superior Court dismissed former Major League Baseball pitcher Michael Bolsinger’s suit against the Houston Astros. Bolsinger sought restitution, claiming the team’s sign-stealing scheme cost him his job with the Toronto Blue Jays after he gave up four runs to the Astros in a game.
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Switzerland said Thursday it would restitute to Taiwan nearly a third of the $900 million it confiscated over corruption allegations linked to the controversial French frigates sale to Taipei three decades ago.
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Spurning other statutes that explicitly guide how the agency can recoup money, the Federal Trade Commission has leaned on its injunctive-relief powers to return almost $1 billion to consumers over the last three years.
Read moreZalathiel Aguila, sentenced to four years in prison for his role in a wire fraud conspiracy that preyed on homeowners close to foreclosure, waived his right to appeal a restitution order the Ninth Circuit ruled.
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A Dutch court on Wednesday rejected a restitution case brought by heirs of a Jewish family that originally owned a painting by Wassily Kandinsky that was bought by the city of Amsterdam at an auction in 1940.
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An Ohio city is not a victim entitled to restitution for resources used responding to a false report of an active shooter, the state’s high court held Thursday.
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The Ohio Supreme Court grappled Tuesday with the question of whether a city can be considered a victim of a crime under state law and whether it is entitled to restitution for crimes.
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Closing arguments were delivered Wednesday in a closely watched federal voting rights trial that could add hundreds of thousands of felons to Florida’s voter rolls and potentially affect the 2020 presidential election.
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Attorneys for 17 plaintiffs with felony convictions continued to grill Florida election officials Tuesday over a hastily prepared policy to determine the voting eligibility of felons with outstanding fines, as a pivotal federal voting rights trial neared its end.
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Florida’s top advocate for expanding voting rights to felons understood eligibility may depend on paying restitution and fines, attorneys for the state argued Friday as a closely watched federal voting rights trial continued.
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Florida’s byzantine patchwork of record-keeping prevents felons from learning about outstanding fines and fees before registering to vote, county election officials and felons testified this week as a closely watched federal voting rights trial enters its fourth day.
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A federal trial began Monday over whether Florida can deny the right to vote for felons unable to pay court costs, restitution or fines.
Read moreA class of students at Purdue University is suing for restitution for tuition, housing, meals and other fees after being sent home from campus because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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A federal injunction blocking a Florida law that requires felons to pay restitution and fines before being able to vote will stand, the 11th Circuit ruled Tuesday, denying the state’s request for an en banc rehearing.
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Florida cannot deny the right to vote for felons unable to pay restitution or fines, the 11th Circuit ruled Wednesday in a limited decision.
Read moreThe Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld orders requiring two for-profit colleges to refund tuition money to hundreds of former students defrauded by false assurances about a criminal justice degree.
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