Sentence examples for restitution awards from inspiring English sources

Michael Rotker, the lawyer for the department, told the court that the problem with the restitution awards was that there was no statutory authority for joint and several liability — nothing in the law, as Congress wrote it, which allowed a victim to recover a large award from one defendant who could then seek to recoup those losses by suing other defendants.

Amy's first restitution award came in February in the Connecticut case; it involved Alan Hesketh, a British executive at the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, who paid $130,000.

The Second Circuit decision may be the toughest of several recent rulings in cases involving Amy; a decision out of the 11th Circuit upheld the restitution award, while others have denied payment.

A United States appeals court threw out a $241 million restitution award against France's Artemis SA resulting from a lawsuit over the purchase of assets from the failed Executive Life Insurance Company, and ordered a retrial of the damages phase.

The judge then issued an injunction ordering the bank to cease the practice, as well as a $203 million restitution award.

The Los Angeles district judge vacated the panel's $700 million punitive damages award, and instead, awarded $241 million in restitution.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday affirmed the lower court decision to vacate the punitive damages award, but said the commissioner was not entitled to restitution and should have been allowed to argue in the damages phase that if not for the conspiracy, the state would have selected another bidder.

In a single year, for example, nearly $500 million in restitution was awarded to victims of white-collar crimes.

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Cotton was awarded restitution for his prison time, and started a family, but has fallen on hard times since suffering a stroke.

After 30 years of death row torture -- which the State formally acknowledges was imposed unconstitutionally -- Mumia should be immediately released from prison and awarded restitution for time served.