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e legacy of the poor treatment of crime victims in the criminal Bustice] process." 150 Cong. Rec. S4269 (daily ed. Apr. 22, 2004) (statement of Sen. Feinstein). In any event, the VRRA did not contain any "right to confer," or a "right to be treated with fairness. and thus it does not provide guidance for

rule, that where there is a legal right, there is also a legal remedy." Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 1 Cranch 137, 163, 2 L.Ed. 60 (1803) (quoting 3 William Blackstone, Commentaries *23). For that reason, "[w]here legal rights have been invaded, and a federal statute provides for a general right to sue for such i

Orrin Hatch filed an amicus brief in support of our Court's rehearing en bane the Panel's erroneous statutory interpretation of the CVRA. Senators Feinstein and Kyl drafted and, along with Senator Hatch, co-sponsored the CVRA. See Senators' Amicus Br. at I. All three senators served on the Senate Judic

hat where there is a legal right, there is also a legal remedy." I I Marbuty v. Madison, 5 U.S. (I Cranch) 137, 163, 2 L.Ed. 60 (1803) (quoting 3 William Blackstone, Commentaries *23). I agree with the Majority, however, that the presence of rights- creating language alone does not establish that crime victims

ntly directed at public wrongs, he did so in the context of a late eighteenth century justice system in which private prosecutions were common. See 4 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book the Fourth 5-6 (1795). 78 See Jacoby, supra note 70, at 23 (concluding that after 1789 “for the first hal

cal governments harms local styles of democracy); Harvey A. Silverglate & Emma Quinn-Judge, Tawdry or Corr