Andrea Kang Wooster | June 11, 2021 | Inside The ALI
In Borden v. United States, No. 19-5410 (June 10, 2021), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a criminal offense that requires only a mens rea of recklessness does not constitute a “violent felony” for purposes of an enhanced sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act...
Andrea Kang Wooster | June 18, 2019 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
The U.S. Supreme Court recently cited Restatement of the Law Fourth, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States § 481 and Restatement of the Law Second, Conflict of Laws § 98 in affirming the longstanding dual-sovereignty doctrine, which provides that a crime...
Andrea Kang Wooster | March 25, 2019 | Property
The U.S. Supreme Court cited the Restatement of the Law Third, Property: Mortgages, in holding that a business that engaged in no more than the enforcement of a security interest—such as a law firm that pursued nonjudicial foreclosures on behalf of clients—was not a...
