CitiGroup Restitution Case Rejected by Supreme Court (1)

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal today over the dissent of Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor that could have made it harder for the government to get criminals to pay restitution to victims in a case involving two men who defrauded Citigroup.

It’s the two justices’ latest tag-team on criminal justice issues. In November they dissented from their colleagues’ refusal to take up a case about confronting witnesses at trial.

This latest case asked whether the high court’s prior rulings requiring jury findings beyond a reasonable doubt for increasing criminal penalties and imposing fines likewise applies to ...