Legal Opinion
Teresa Prewett v. Stanely Weems
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 14, 2014No. 12-6489PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
Stanley Weems pleaded guilty to one count of producing child pornography. See 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a). His victim, J.W., filed this civil action against Weems to obtain compensation for the abuse. See id. § 2255(a). The district court awarded $1 million, a figure reached by multiplying the presumed-damages floor in the civil-remedies statute ($150,000) by the number of videos Weems produced (seven) and by capping the damages at the relief sought in J.W.’s complaint ($1 million). This accounting raises an interesting question: Does the civil-remedies statute set a…
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