This video explains how the role of remedies has developed over time within the Torts Restatements and the impact remedies have on a case.
Douglas Laycock Posts
Project Spotlight: Torts – Remedies
by Douglas Laycock | Aug 1, 2024 | Torts: Remedies
In this video, Reporters for the Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Remedies examine how states may vary when awarding damages.
Torts: Remedies at the 2022 ALI Annual Meeting
by Douglas Laycock | May 10, 2022 | Torts: Remedies
In this video, Reporters Douglas Laycock and Richard L. Hasen provide an overview of Tentative Draft No. 1 of Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Remedies, which includes a significant portion of Chapter 1 on Compensatory Damages.
Supreme Court Says a Claim for Nominal Damages Avoids Mootness — But When Does That Matter?
by Douglas Laycock | Mar 22, 2021 | Torts: Remedies
The Supreme Court’s minimum requirements for standing are that a plaintiff show an injury, traceable to defendant, that the court can redress. If at any point in a litigation, these three requirements are no longer satisfied, the case becomes moot.
Project Spotlight: Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Remedies
by Douglas Laycock | Jan 7, 2021 | Torts: Remedies
In the fall of 2020, the first draft of Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Remedies was produced and the first project meeting was held. The post contains an excerpt from Comments of § 1 of Preliminary Draft No. 1 (Oct. 2020), titled “Introduction: The Right to a Remedy.”
Disgorgement or Accounting for Profits? An Analysis of Liu v. SEC
by Douglas Laycock | Jan 4, 2021 | Torts: Remedies
From Season Two of Reasonably Speaking, this episode discusses the Supreme Court’s decision, both the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and whether the Court’s reference to “equitable relief” includes the remedy of “disgorgement.”