Emily Bazelon on Slate.com: Paying Amy – Child Pornography and Restitution
Emily Bazelon has written another great piece about our Supreme Court case which was posted today on Slate.com. In Paying Amy -Doyle Paroline owned two pornographic pictures of an 8-year-old girl. How much should he have to pay?, Bazelon explains:
Here’s the clearest way to think about how and why Amy and other victims like her should win restitution. Their trauma can’t be neatly parceled out among the individual men convicted for possessing their pictures. But the harm is crystal clear in the aggregate. And so Paroline and other defendants shouldn’t be relieved of ...
James R. Marsh Featured on HuffPost Live – TODAY
I am a featured guest on today's HuffPost Live piece on the Marsh Law Firm's upcoming Supreme Court case on restitution for victims of child pornography. Tune in at 3:30 EST today for what promises to be an interesting panel discussion. Supportive comments and questions are welcome and encouraged.
Extraordinary Outpouring of Amici Support Amy in the United States Supreme Court
Today, twenty-one national and international advocacy organizations, the Dutch National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings and Sexual Violence Against Children, the attorneys general of thirty-four states and one territory, and a bi-partisan group of seven United States Senators, filed amicus curiae briefs in the United States Supreme Court supporting Amy in her five-year battle to secure federal criminal restitution for victims of child pornography.
Here are the amici, briefs, and lawyers which contributed to this extraordinary effort to support Amy's case in the ...
The Children’s Bureau Legacy: Ensuring the Right to Childhood
New E-book Shares Children's Bureau's 100-Year Commitment to Children and Families
A recently released e-book—The Children's Bureau Legacy: Ensuring the Right to Childhood—presents a comprehensive look at the first 100 years of the Children's Bureau, which is part of the ACYF/ACF/HHS. The e-book combines compelling text with striking historical images to tell the story of a small Federal agency that took on some of the nation's most devastating social problems, including infant mortality, child labor, and child abuse and neglect.
The e-book places the ...
Amy’s Brief filed with the United States Supreme Court
Amy's Brief on the Merits is filed with the United States Supreme Court in Marsh Law Firm's groundbreaking child pornography restitution case.
After Five Years – Supreme Court Brief Finally Completed!
Over five years ago, I began an unprecedented effort to obtain criminal restitution for victims of child pornography and online exploitation. A few minutes ago, our United States Supreme Court brief was finally delivered to the printer. The oral argument in this groundbreaking case is scheduled for January 22, 2014.
When I began this journey, I didn't really realize or appreciate how long and how difficult it would be. Earlier this year I counted the number of words in just the appellate briefs and motions which are well over 600,000. Long days, endless nights, someti...
Novel Federal Civil Child Pornography Case Advances: Prejudgment Attachment Ordered and Stay Denied
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On Friday, November 1, 2013, the federal court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle issued a groundbreaking ruling in a novel civil child pornography case which the Marsh Law Firm filed ten months ago on behalf of our client “Amy.”In this remarkable order, Judge Richard Jones granted our motion for prejudgment attachment of convicted sex offender Joshua Osmun Kennedy’s real and personal property. The claims of another of Kennedy’s victims known as “Vicky” were consolidated with Amy’s case, and her joint-motion was also granted.
The ...