United States Ninth Circuit

Under the Victim and Witness Protection Act, a court may not order a defendant to pay restitution based on victim's lost opportunity but only on victim's actual losses.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/10/2000
• Decided 10/26/2000
• Published 10/26/2000

Judges

• SILVERMAN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  THOMPSON, T.G. NELSON and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Nina Wilder,Weinberg & Wilder, San Francisco, California, for the defendant-appellant., J. Douglas Wilson, Chief, Appellate Section, Assistant United States Attorney, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.