United States Ninth Circuit

Enforcing a restitution order by reasonable means requires the government to take prompt action to see that the victims are awarded restitution in a commercially reasonable manner calculated to maximize monetary return.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/16/2005
• Decided 07/21/2005
• Published 07/21/2005

Judges

• MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:, Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, CANBY, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Christopher B. Durbin (argued and briefed), Cooley Godward, San Francisco, CA, and Margaret C. Crosby (briefed), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, Inc., San Francisco, CA, for Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• John Balazs, Sacramento, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Ana Maria Martel, Office of the United States Attorney, Sacramento, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.