Dan Epps

That sounds more like a procedural right, even though, look, procedure is valuable.

Maybe there's a little bit of wiggle room there for extraordinary cases, right?

But yeah, maybe not.

Maybe this is it.

But did we know, does Steve like the result here?

We should get on the show.

Okay.

Well, hopefully.

If not, we've got a problem.

I was going to ask you the kind of pre-Erie thing.

world, was there any, would they ever have followed state procedural rules in the pre-Erie, pre-rules enabling act world?

It's just a question of... Yeah, although if you're a federal judge, would you have to do multiple states procedures or would it just be based on where your court was?

I mean, do I have to?

I'm happy to do it.

This one is even shorter.

We've got a five-pager, five-page majority opinion by Justice Kavanaugh.

This is about a statute called the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996, which says, you know, defendants convicted of certain crimes have to pay monetary restitution.

This is a very common part of judgments against criminal defendants after they've been convicted.

Defendant here was sentenced in 1996.

That's when the law came into force and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of about $7,500.