Jennifer Morinigo | December 7, 2017 | American Indian Law
The U.S Supreme Court denied a petition to hear a case involving whether, when, and to what extent the federal reserved right doctrine recognized in Winters v. United States pre-empts state-law regulation of groundwater. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the...
Jennifer Morinigo | October 24, 2017 | American Indian Law, Children and the Law, Conflict of Laws, Data Privacy, Sexual Assault, Student Sexual Misconduct, Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons
At its meeting in New York City on October 19 and 20, The American Law Institute’s Council reviewed drafts for eight projects, with the following outcomes: Law of American Indians: The Council approved Council Draft No. 4, with the exception of § 33 Sovereign Immunity...
Jennifer Morinigo | August 24, 2017 | Liability Insurance
In a decision that discussed the issue of rescission of insurance contracts in cases of material misrepresentations in insurance applications by high-risk insureds, the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles cited the Proposed Final Draft of...
Kevin Reitz, Cecelia M. Klingele and Jennifer Morinigo | August 14, 2017 | Sentencing
We recently featured a post on the topic of sentencing in juvenile cases. In the post, author Ashley Nellis from The Sentencing Project writes that, “Changing public sentiment regarding the wisdom of sending young people to adult prisons has led policymakers in many...
Jennifer Morinigo | May 24, 2017 | Sentencing
At ALI’s Annual Meeting on Wednesday, May 24, members voted to approve The Model Penal Code: Sentencing project. This completes these three portions of the project. Launched in 2001, under Reporter Kevin R. Reitz of the University of Minnesota Law School, who was...
