United States v. Chalupnik

How courts have described this case

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• holding restitution is to be based on actual loss, not hypothetical loss, and “may not be ‘based entirely upon speculation’”
• finding that the Government failed to prove lost profits or any other actual loss “as a result of his committing the offense of conviction”
• beginning its analysis by determining whether BMG Columbia House qualified as a victim under the MVRA
• determining the amount of loss as proven by the government only after concluding BMG Columbia House was a victim
• concluding a company qualified as an MVRA victim
• reviewing district court’s decision to award restitution for abuse of discretion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).