Rodriguez-Amparo v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• holding that attorneys’ fees and costs spent by an insurance company to defend against civil suit filed by defendant are not recoverable under the VWPA
• holding that a judge may properly delegate some decision making authority to a probation officer
• holding that insurance company’s legal-expenses from a "wholly separate” civil suit were not recoverable under the VWPA
• holding, with respect to the now-repealed Federal Probation Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3651, that district court may leave restitution schedule to probation officer’s discretion
• attorney’s fees in defending civil suit too remote from losses resulting from defendant’s criminal conduct to serve as basis for restitution under VWPA
• district court may delegate timing and manner of restitution payments to defendant’s probation officer, but court's failure to establish amount of restitution required remand